Detouring past peak summer-dozing
Through June and July, months enclosing,
Find poems anew.
Topics random ensue:
A summer of theme-juxtaposing.
May has officially disappeared in its typical blend of semester-ending meetings and tasks. Most years, I tend to realize the summer is on the wane at the end of June, but I’m aiming to use the season a bit more productively this time around.
Detouring past peak summer-dozing /
Through June and July, months enclosing, /
Find poems anew.
The end of the academic year is hectic enough that I doubt I’ll ever manage to completely bypass “summer-dozing” entirely. May brings a welcome break from course prep and teaching, but it also starts a sequence of catching up on appointments. I usually am in recovery mode during any down time from the latter.
I’ve seen since beginning this website that it’s been quite rewarding to dedicate at least some time over the summer to non-academic writing. Topics have varied over my July efforts in the past few years: I have revisited some biographical and teaching themes, used specific lines from literature as inspiration for short essays, expanded on conference presentations from previous years, and revisited some overlaps of STEM and the humanities.
My goal for this summer is to get to that writing-focused stretch a bit sooner: in other words, to spend some time in both June and July on “poems anew” and the ideas they summarize.
Topics random ensue: /
A summer of theme-juxtaposing.
With all that said, I expect that it might be a bit more random of a collection of posts than in past summers, to cover all nine weeks in this portion of the year! I will be interested to see, when I revisit things at the close of this stretch, if the resulting “theme-juxtaposing” has led to some interesting parallels I am not directly anticipating at the moment.
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