“What is it that recurs?” (Perl)

 

“the politics of literacy = the politics of working conditions” (Berman)

for Richard E. Miller

 

dare i say spreadsheet, dare

i say engine economy retail

court this hard headed approach

to empathy because remember

it’s a read/write world, a scale

tilting no longer grounded

in printing press, no longer low cost

authority functionally fluffed

a single phrase multiply produced

but i really want to underscore,

to vet interest in the blood run

economy as much fun as the whole

 

of childhood or the glee club

approach to sequence and trial

 

Session L. 31: High School to College: Student Learning, the Common Core Standards for College Readiness, and the Politics of Literacy

Anne Gere (Chair), Russell Berman, Doug Hesse, Richard E. Miller

“literacy…a plot against speaking?” (Elbow)

the last time we sat in a room and pretended

to meet i got a coffee cup out of it

and the word missing redefined as state

adjusted autonomy, with all the pretenses

of greeting complexity as standard fugitive

practice through which relationships

materialize and we drive the car forward

and be “creative” because we can’t add

anything else and not all conspiracies

are conscious uncontestable so let’s join

hands and fight the lost war, chant—

money money importance money compose

 

money and when a bacterial cell dies it leaves

behind packets of dna, i say they’re like diaries

 

Session FSp.8: What are the Linguistic and Rhetorical Virtues in Casual Spontaneous Speech that can Strengthen Careful Writing—Even Academic Writing?

Peter Elbow