Virtual Symposium - Poetry (Various Students)

Shaking schools to their foundations: Poems in the midst of a Pandemic

Sister Maria Reginald Aanstoos, Clayton Arnold, Sister Anthony Marie Bautista, Sister Mary Concepta Brockway, Sister Lucy Fidelis Brungardt, Kaylee Cheek, Alexis Dimanche, Hannah Egbert, Annalee Ewton, Elyssa Gibson, Kayla Good, Elaine Goulden, Hunter Henry-Brown, Grace Johnson, Joshua Jones, Kristin Lacy, Alexis Lemus, Emma Lewis, Melanie Lim, Sister Monica Marie Lynk, Thomas McNeely, Sister Teresa Marie Plunkett, Loren Poindexter Mchan, Coleen Roche, Rechelle Santivanez, Sister Teresa Casey Sinishtaj, Sister Basil Marie Smith, Thalia Stogsdill, Randi Stokes, Charlotte Wheeler, & Vivian Williams

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

Poetry enables us to openly explore our emotional responses to the world we live in, allowing new encounters with our pasts, presents and futures. In this performance set of 31 poems, students reveal how encounters with the familiar spaces of schooling and learning have influenced the way they see the world and their lives. Some reach into their past experiences with surprise, drawing new insights from the present; some reevaluate the present with the insights of the past. In each, an emotional moment (or more) is caught, considered and translated into language and imagery. The audience will easily understand and empathize with these experiences, as they mirror many of our own. And, who knows, you could possibly have an emotional reaction of your own.

Shaking schools to their foundations: Poems in the midst of a Pandemic

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