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I watch my pre-teen draw her dead dog
On white paper with black lines.
Her face is turned to the image
Hands cleverly outlining canine teeth.
She sits across the dining room table
Brow furrowed in concentration
Playing songs of lost love and human devastation
Instilling in her the idea
That she will have power in this world.
Mighty power that will flow from her veins
Through her soft white skin
Over her chest and shapely legs
And she will learn that this power
Is something that she can wield like Excalibur
brandished by the mighty King Arthur
When he realized his beloved Guinevere
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Thu, 01/21/2021
LAWRENCE The KU Center for Service Learning will host the Summit on Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship on Jan. 27. The goal of this summit is to engage, connect and support University of Kansas faculty, staff and administrators with interest in:
Addressing community-identified issues through service learning, community-engaged scholarship or civic engagement
Examining the commitment of the public university in contributing to addressing societal issues through campus and community partnerships.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of digital humanities and professor of English at Michigan State University will deliver the keynote address, “Generous Thinking and the Public University in 2021,” at 9:30 a.m. Fitzpatrick will discuss her book “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University,” which urges academics to think critically, constructively and generously. This mode of engagement is described as listening over speaking, commun