Happy National Poetry Month once again! This year, I’m sharing the work of students in my current undergraduate world literature course in Global Horror, where we’re currently wrapping up the term at Seton Hill University. In that class, we studied everything from current folk horror novels to Serbian folk vampires. One week, we practiced Japanese poetic forms, inspired by our study of the Godzilla kaiju films, Junji Ito’s classic horror manga, Uzumaki, and Jisei death poems. The results were so good, I compiled them into a fun and morbidly twisted ebook, called Kaiju Death Spiral, featuring a fantastic piece of cover art created exclusively for the collection by Gina Pivirotto. Please join my students in celebration of National Poetry Month by taking a look at the pdf and letting us know what you think.
Download a free copy of the class ebook (in .pdf format only) here!
post-script:
If you’ve read the intro to the ebook, you’ve seen how much I enjoyed teaching this literature/film class. The poetry is just one of many diverse activities they performed in class, from the traditional term papers, to multimedia responses to clever “research races” and more. Here are three that I can share publicly:
“Research Race” Gallery: Cthulhu in Art:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d-SiViiHI3NyK4sagUWzFIzJxs_WmPrdSzZwWQ5r-Wg/edit?usp=sharing
The class “World of Horror” Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1zXOcaX487FovN2-Rci-A9veCDVTdV3LQ&ehbc=2E312F
Scary Folklore Recitations from Around the World:
