Bombs Bursting in Air: CHaSS Alum Recounts an Aggie Firework Fable
Dale Z. Kirby earned an undergraduate degree in German in 1963. Here he reflects on a rather "explosive" campus event he helped to pull off in 1961.
April 8, 2022
Jason Olsen Publishes Poem in Rattle
Associate Professor Jason Olsen published his postmodern poem “If Anyone Was Offended...” in issue #73 of Rattle. The publication’s mission is to “promote the practice of poetry” with poems “that rattle[] around inside you for years.”
“If Anyone Was Offended...” is a collection of direct quotes from celebrity apologies, artfully arranged via collage to showcase how such apologies have become a kind of genre unto themselves. Jason explains, “'If Anyone Was Offended...' was an interesting poem to create. All of the lines of the poem are from celebrity apologies, most of which are kind of awful. But merging them together became fascinating—a sort of deconstruction of apologies, especially insincere apologies.”
Jason’s poem can be accessed in both text and audio format here on Rattle’s website.
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