Outsided — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Outsided

Name: Nicole Gaa
Major: English
Hometown: Gurnee
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Meier
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research

Abstract

I have treaded carefully when I wrote poems. Straying away from being inside them or using too much I. Cautious to not be too political or too personal. In class I had been told that a poem should do more than one thing, such as just being political. (Perhaps poems should then be able to hula-hoop or spin yarn?) How can poetry balance identity, experience, and opinion? All the while, being able to stand alone as art. How does one find such a balance? This set of poems explores balancing, or not, what a poem can do. They are written while listening to and stealing language from conversations, french music, and television. The stolen language is then constructed into poems based on sound and word-play. In college I have sought balance, specifically when it came to imperative components of my identity: Christian Asian-White American Woman. In attempting to balance and construct and define myself, I have concluded that treading carefully and erasing myself from my poems goes against my values. Balance and multitasking poems are desirable, and so is challenging what one is told - about art or themselves.