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I unfortunately did not have time last week to add more to my workshop. It was quite a chaotic, uncomfortable time to be a student at UCSD this past week, and I am still in disbelief as to the events that have happened on my campus. In truth, I have been ashamed to be a student at UCSD, but I am at least thankful for my peers and the literature community for taking a stance and being transparent about condemning these events and the faculty that allowed it to happen. 

Besides all that has occurred, I am grateful that we had our class on Wednesday and that we were able to workshop other pieces in the class. It has been very insightful to hear and read what other students have been working on and to see the suggestions that people have for them. I have begun to think more about how my audio recording will be, and I have come up with a few ideas. First, I would like to incorporate Mary Oliver reading her poem, “Wild Geese” as I have mentioned before, and then also my father’s voice and perhaps other poets that I want to incorporate. I am considering involving Sharon Olds or Louise Glück, with poems that I love and remember often. 

While I was working, I was able to read twERK, which was, as expected, a challenging read. There were a lot of different languages, including pig Latin, which was the only thing that I was able to understand (thankfully, it was just the previous words that were in English). I thought it to be a very effective experimental piece of poetry and translanguaging, in languages that the author didn’t necessarily speak. Her inclusion of cultures and their customs within her poetry, and her response to them, was very insightful and something that I am looking forward to discussing in class this week.

Although this week was challenging, I am looking forward to continuing to workshop my piece, and also discuss what we have read and my peers’ workshop pieces during class.