{"id":1599,"date":"2018-09-12T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?page_id=1599"},"modified":"2018-09-12T22:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:08:36","slug":"required-blogpost-week-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?page_id=1599","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Pen is a Machete\u201d (due week 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">BLOGPOST: \u201cMy Pen is a Machete\u201d: Transforming English\u00a0 (Tag: Poetry)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Due: Week 3<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right; padding-left: 210px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>i can&#8217;t count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i waz taught to hate myself in\/ the language that perpetuates the notions that cause pain to every black child as he\/she learns to speak of the world \u00a0&amp; the &#8220;self&#8221; \u00a0(LLS 19).<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Take one quote\/excerpt from Fanon or Rich and &#8220;read like Shange.&#8221; That is, write out the prose quote as if it were a poem&#8211;make it &#8220;move,&#8221; make the spacing reflect breath, emphasis or silence. (You can use the same quote as for your class prep, just do it on different paper.) Then reflect a bit on what this re-writing of the quote means to you.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLOGPOST: \u201cMy Pen is a Machete\u201d: Transforming English\u00a0 (Tag: Poetry) Due: Week 3 i can&#8217;t count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i waz taught to hate myself in\/ the language that perpetuates the notions that cause pain to every black child as he\/she learns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1586,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions\/1611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}