Presenter: Jordan Coen − Educational Foundations
Faculty Mentor(s): Elizabeth Wallace
(Virtual) Creative Work—Connection, Escapism, Poetry and Exercise
For these three pieces, I explored one-sided love and how it feels . I believe one-sided love is something that needs more light shed on it, and I want to be a part of that effort . To convey how one-sided love looks and feels, I used different types of poetry–a sonnet titled Sour Love, a free verse titled It Didn’t Click, and a rhyming poem titled Candy Consumed . For It Didn’t Click, I wanted the poem to not only sound, but also look like how I felt during the time in which the poem is set . When I bolded any words in this poem, it was for emphasis just as when words or sentences went up or down like stairs . For Candy Consumed, I was challenged to work with a candy theme for a contest . The poem had to be angry, and it had to be rhyming, so I decided to write about my first, and only break-up . I’m very close to all three of these pieces, as they address my experiences .