In The Ring: Recent Episodes

In The Ring

Welcome to "In The Ring", where we explore Joseph Rios's poetry-based novel "Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations." We will be focusing largely on the book's implications for multimodality and social activism.

Disclaimer: This is a collaboration for the Winter 2019 ENGL 382 class at the University of Washington-Seattle, hosted by Wil Engstrom, Kenneth Mason, Patrick Murphy, and Tiffany Nguyen. The University of Washington is not responsible for any of this public content. This tool is being used to aid in a project and content will be deleted after this quarter.

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In this week's episode, we focus on the dissertation "Speaking Bodies" by Jade Power, and comparison to Joseph Rios. 

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Citations:

Power, J. (2012). Speaking bodies : body bilinguality and code-switching in Latina/o performance. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Power_ucsd_0033D_12369. Merritt ID: ark:/20775/bb34825399. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wf8v1h1

Rios, Joseph. Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations. Omnidawn Publishing, 2017.

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In this week's episode, we focus on a poem from "Of Mongrelitude" by Julian Brolaski, and compare the style and theme with Joseph Rios. We talk about similarities and differences, and how both authors use multimodal writing in their poems.

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Citations:

Brolaski, Julian T. Of Mongrelitude. Wave Books, 2017. 

Rios, Joseph. Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations. Omnidawn Publishing, 2017.

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In this week's episode, we're discussing CA Conrad's concept of somatic poetry. We discuss the question: "How does this concept relate to multimodal writing?", connecting to Joseph Rios's Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations, and more! 

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Citations:

Rios, Joseph. Shadowboxing: Poems & Impressions. 1st ed., Omnidawn, 2017. pp. 29, 41.

Zucker, Rachel. “Episode 49: CAConrad.” Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) , 4 Apr. 2018, www.commonpodcast.com/home/2018/4/4/episode-49-caconrad.

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In this week's episode, we're connecting "Shadowboxing" to art events within our lives. We discuss questions such as: "How does this event tie to our reading?", "How does the connection between audience and creator create a moment of activism?", and more! 

As a group, we understand that our teacher is NOT forcing us to use this public account, and we are willingly using it to help with our project. We will delete this account at the end of the quarter and our teacher is not liable for any of the content or backlash stemming from this account.

Citations:

  • Rios, Joseph. Shadowboxing: Poems & Impressions. 1st ed., Omnidawn, 2017. pp. 15, 51.

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1) As a group, we understand that our teacher is NOT forcing us to use this public account, and we are willingly using it to help with our project. We will delete this account at the end of the quarter and our teacher is not liable for any of the content or backlash stemming from this account.

2) Citations:

  • Rios, Joseph. Shadowboxing: Poems & Impressions. 1st ed., Omnidawn, 2017. pp. 21, 29.
  • Dowling, Sarah. Translingual Poetics. University of Iowa Press, 2018. pp 51.