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Distribution of demographics by the selection of poems. Green indicates high frequency, yellow indicates medium frequency, and red indicates low frequency.
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This article explores the role of literary user preference and experience of contextualizing information in the interpretive responses to poems on PhoneMe, a social media web-platform and mobile app for place-based spoken word poetry. 137 education students in three Canadian universities participated by completing a survey that asked them to choose...
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... the most frequently chosen poem was "Catch Me" (45.2%, n=61), followed by "Water" (31.9%, n=42), and "We Volunteer" (23.0%, n=31). Table 2 shows a detailed depiction of the demographic distributions of the people who choose the different poemsincluding age, group, area of study, and number of poems written in the last year, five years, and in their lifetime. Most notably, our analysis of the data shows that poem choice is closely related to the average age of participants who chose that specific poem. ...Similar publications
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In secondary English classrooms, poetry is often a text that is least liked because it is viewed as being “inaccessible,” reserved for the elite, and/or too abstract. Part of the reason for this also lies in the traditional, colonial structures of introducing poetry such as relying on canonical texts and close reading analysis. Yet, outside of the classroom poetry is used in more accessible and engaging manners. With the advancements of technology, there also includes multimodal ways in which to read and write poetry that could be much more interesting for both educators and youth. This paper opens a discussion to consider multimodal and aesthetic responses to including poetry such as using digital apps like PhoneMe, a free accessible platform that allows users to post their written poems, record themselves reciting poems, and pin their poems directly on to an interactive digital map. The uniqueness of PhoneMe—a layered multimodal approach—can provide a more engaging way to teach and learn poetry.
