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Paper
Presentation #1 Title
A Geography of Scars: Appalachian Dialect Poetry
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Shawna Rodenberg 4500 Rodenberg Ave. Evansville, IN 47720 (812) 480-9164 shawna.kay.r@gmail.com
A Geography of Scars: Appalachian Dialect Poetry (30-45 minutes)
This paper is a brief history of and argument for the use of Appalachian dialect in poetry. I am most interested in exploring all that can be accomplished in a poem through dialect that cannot be accomplished through standard or mainstream forms of English, and exploring the effects, both positive and negative, of dialect poetry on its particular region of origin. The examples of dialect poetry I have chosen include but are not limited to the works of Maurice Manning, Jayne Ann Phillips, Dorothy Parker, and Wallace Stevens.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg holds her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches English at a community college in eastern Kentucky and moonlights as a poetry editor for various journals. She is also the founder and host of Slant, a monthly poetry reading in Evansville, Indiana. Her work has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Structo, drafthorse, Free State Review, Crab Creek Review, and The USI 50th Anniversary Anthology. She is a mother of five (two in college) and she lives on a dairy goat farm in southern Indiana.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Shawna Kay Rodenberg holds her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches English at a community college in eastern Kentucky and moonlights as a poetry editor for various journals. She is also the founder and host of Slant, a monthly poetry reading in Evansville, Indiana. Her work has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Structo, drafthorse, Free State Review, Crab Creek Review, and The USI 50th Anniversary Anthology. She is a mother of five (two in college) and she lives on a dairy goat farm in southern Indiana.
A Geography of Scars: Appalachian Dialect Poetry
Shawna Rodenberg 4500 Rodenberg Ave. Evansville, IN 47720 (812) 480-9164 shawna.kay.r@gmail.com
A Geography of Scars: Appalachian Dialect Poetry (30-45 minutes)
This paper is a brief history of and argument for the use of Appalachian dialect in poetry. I am most interested in exploring all that can be accomplished in a poem through dialect that cannot be accomplished through standard or mainstream forms of English, and exploring the effects, both positive and negative, of dialect poetry on its particular region of origin. The examples of dialect poetry I have chosen include but are not limited to the works of Maurice Manning, Jayne Ann Phillips, Dorothy Parker, and Wallace Stevens.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg holds her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches English at a community college in eastern Kentucky and moonlights as a poetry editor for various journals. She is also the founder and host of Slant, a monthly poetry reading in Evansville, Indiana. Her work has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Structo, drafthorse, Free State Review, Crab Creek Review, and The USI 50th Anniversary Anthology. She is a mother of five (two in college) and she lives on a dairy goat farm in southern Indiana.
