{"id":187,"date":"2013-07-07T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2018-01-06T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T17:32:13","slug":"poetics-of-emplacement-map-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/poetics-of-emplacement-map-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetics of Emplacement – Map 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily Ronay Johnston, SRPR Managing Editor<\/h2>\n

This post is part of a series on SRPR\u2019s ongoing and evolving conceptualization of the Poetics of Emplacement. What do we mean by Poetics of Emplacement? SRPR\u2019s editor, contributing editors, staff members and friends share their thoughts here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Kirstin Hotelling Zona (SRPR Editor) writes, \u201cA poetics of emplacement is interested in borders and thus borderlands: beings and ways of being that are often overlooked<\/a>.\u201d A poetics of emplacement looks<\/i>—looks over, looks beyond knowing and into the generative realm of wonder. Knowing becomes a beginning, a starting point, not the destination. The destination, rather, is rupture. I am totally on board with not knowing<\/i>. I mean, how cool is it to have permission to write my way into <\/i>rupture rather than out <\/i>of it, avoiding messy-ness at all costs?! When I need to light a fire under my intellect, to override that insatiable addiction to knowledge, I turn to Rumi, Jelaluddin Balkhi. His poetry emplaces me squarely in temporality, in permeability, calling us (human beings) to house the guests of our emotions, regardless of their actions in and through our beings, to \u201cWelcome and entertain them all!\/Even if they\u2019re a crowd of sorrows,\/who violently sweep your house\/empty of its furniture\u201d (from \u201cThe Guest House\u201d). We mustn\u2019t stop at emotion, though. A poetics of emplacement beckons us to welcome the violence of emotionality, not to indulge in suffering, but quite the opposite: to love. To be sure, \u201cThe door there\/is devastation.\/\/Birds make great sky-circles\/of their freedom.\/How do they learn it?\/\/They fall, and falling,\/they\u2019re given wings\u201d (from \u201cOn Children Running Through\u201d). We might say that a poetics of emplacement is not only \u201cinterested in\u201d <\/i>that which is overlooked, it is also the road there<\/i>, the looking beyond <\/i>itself, <\/i>the surrender to being \u201cfilled with you [love].\/Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul\u201d (from \u201cWe Three\u201d).<\/p>\n

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\"Emily<\/a>Emily is from Boston, San Francisco, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Central Illinois. Holding a Ph.D. in English Studies and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing\/Poetry, her work emerges at the intersections of writing studies, social justice pedagogy, trauma theory, film theory, and narrativity. In particular, she researches and publishes on students\u2019 literacy learning in relation to issues of sexualized trauma. She has taught courses in academic writing, public writing, creative writing, gender studies, literature and film, and English as a Second Language. Emily is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Writing Pedagogy at The University of Delaware, and Managing Editor of\u00a0Spoon River Poetry Review<\/em>\u00a0(SRPR).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Ronay Johnston, SRPR Managing Editor This post is part of a series on SRPR\u2019s ongoing and evolving conceptualization of the Poetics of Emplacement. What do we mean by Poetics of Emplacement? SRPR\u2019s editor, contributing editors, staff members and friends … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,14,12,13],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poe","tag-border","tag-emily-johnston","tag-kirstin-hotelling-zona","tag-love","tag-poetics-of-emplacement","tag-rumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srpr.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}