Regardless of Reamy’s reticence, his poetry was well received and took third place in the poetry section at the conference.
More recently, Reamy has been drawing on poets like Emily Yoon, Jericho Brown and Robert Bly to diversify his style. Kooser is one of Reamy’s favorites, but he had an overly controlling effect on his style. Reamy said he does not feel like he presented his best work, because when he wrote the poetry, he was studying abroad in Ecuador and only had access to a single anthology of Ted Kooser. Peter Reamy presented a set of four poems that he described as not having an emotional or personal unity, but rather a set of observations regarding objects and places that grabbed his attention, and how they changed through time: river rocks, a gravesite, his grandparents’ cabin that burned down. Lloyd said that though she was nervous to present her material, she was confident in what she’d written. Literature gives a more manageable mode to approach the topic. Lloyd said she finds suicide within literature a topic of particular interest, because, though the subject is highly important, it is hard to approach directly. She claims that the suicide of Quentin, one of the book’s protagonists, is an “existentially successful act” according to Sartre’s philosophy, because by it, Quentin realized his own will. Mckenna Lloyd presented a paper that applies Sartrean existentialism to William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.
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Tandy said the conference is an invaluable experience for students, because it is “similar to a professional conference,” which he said has helped many students “decide whether they want to go to graduate school.” Tandy has been taking two to ten students to the conference for the last ten years, and said that every year his students win at least two awards from competing among about a thousand students. Gary Tandy, chair of the department of English and theatre, said helps promote English majors and minors (mainly within the US) to study literature, write, and publish. Sigma Tau Delta is a ninety-nine year old organization which Dr.
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