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Sampling the Hors d’Oeuvres: Exploratory Poetics in Archives and Special Collections
- Author(s):
- Patrick Williams (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Subject(s):
- Archival materials, Academic libraries--Administration, Academic librarians, Academic libraries, Teaching, Creative writing--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Other
- Tag(s):
- foundpoetry, specialcollections, lessonplan, Academic librarianship, Pedagogy, Creative writing pedagogy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/pakq-tb59
- Abstract:
- Going beyond a typical show-and-tell, this lesson plan engages students with primary materials as ingredients for creative work, with attention to the ways researchers read and notice in archives and special collections. This hands-on creative activity helps students to identify and analyze many facets of materials in a special collections setting, and it allows students to explore those materials together. Students create found poems based on a prompt distributed by the librarian-instructor and then engage in reflective sharing of the poems. The prompt draws students toward the textual, paratextual, and metadata elements of materials, and the sharing of poems among students highlights the variety of their observations.
- Notes:
- Chapter 16 in The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Edited by Julie M. Porterfield. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2021.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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