Again, Community is the most innovative sitcom of all time. That doesn’t mean that it’s the best sitcom ever, but it definitely breaks from the traditional sitcom mould. At a literal level, the show is about Jeff Winger and… Read More
After today’s class discussion I began to question our media’s humor today. For example: A video of women singing about avocados (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNsKvZo6MDs) A gif of a white man blinking Or even a simple picture of a dog with two… Read More
While watching this sketch live, I kept waiting for the joke, thinking SNL (and I, admittedly) were above such seemingly simple and bizarre humor. Yet, the next day I kept thinking about Pumpkins’ catchphrase, “Any questions?” I… Read More
The lyrical connection between poetry and music is evident in the utilization of Warsan Shire’s poetry in Beyonce’s Lemonade. One of my favorite aspects of Beyonce’s visual album is the performance of “Pray You Catch Me”. Warsan Shire’s… Read More
The aesthetic of poetic language does not entice readers in the same regard as novels do— the stories told in poetry often speak to the raw emotion of human experience that fiction cannot capture. Retellings of lived experience… Read More
I ran across this article on my facebook timeline a few days ago and I feel like it completely connects with the situation that Claudia Rankine creates with the fear of interacting with the police in today’s society:… Read More
On Claudia Rankin’e website, she has several “video essays” that, to me, work under the same unrestricted guidelines as her poetry. The videos act as an audible version of her lyric poetry that combine with cinematography in order to… Read More
Former United States Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, says, “poetry, like all the other arts, is originally a childhood pleasure. Children naturally like to count time, they love rhyming. What happens is adolescence takes over and were paralyzed… Read More
It’s striking that she doesn’t say she knows poetry because of any intrinsic qualities of poetry itself. Rather, she recognizes it by contact. She (Emily Dickinson) knows it by what it does to her, and she trusts her… Read More
The recent events in Charlotte follow the recent trend of media activism, in which social media is utilized in activist movements. This can range from Facebook Live to movements conducive to hashtags such as #NODAPL or #BlackLivesMatter…. Read More
