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Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsSeries Editors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson LoganINCLUSIVE AIMS: RHETORIC'S ROLE IN REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE engages with fraught reproductive realities-past, present, and future-and offers analysis and advice for coalitional alliance and strategy building. For those who legitimately value the needs, desires, and safety of reproducing people, recent years have demonstrated that in the United States especially, reproductive matters represent not only contestation but extreme precarity. Considering such pressing exigencies, those pursuing just reproductive politics can benefit from thinking about such events and actions rhetorically, and not in isolation but as interconnected and connected to larger webs of action. The collection features a range of activist-scholars and scholar-activists, each of whom shares and/or interrogates stories of reproductive in/justice. Its topics range from discourse practices related to telehealth, birthing doula care, and negligence due to systemic racism and transphobia to representations of vasectomy, strategies for political solidarity, and considerations for navigating the challenges of activist interventions. The project mindfully infuses insights from thought-traditions of reproductive justice activists and scholars outside of rhetoric. Through its varied chapters, the collection demonstrates how rhetorics of reproductive politics function as a means by which various injustices are illuminated and addressed. Contributors include Zachary Beare, Fabiola Carrión, Hannah Dudley-Shotwell, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Meta Henty, Adele N. Nichols, Sheri Rysdam, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Michelle C. Smith, Melissa Stone, Jill Swiencicki, Jenna Vinson, and James D. Warwood.Heather Brook Adams is an associate professor of English and a cross-appointed faculty member in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on contemporary rhetoric, rhetorics of health and medicine, advocacy and argumentation, and feminist pedagogy. Nancy Myers is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she teaches rhetorical theory and history, composition, and linguistics and is cross-appointed faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs, which contextualize, theorize, and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome. CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 51.2 (Fall 2023): Editorial Introduction: What Is Good Writing? | AT A GLANCE: Ameliorating Violence in Composition: A Need for Vigilance by Scott Gage and Kristie S. Fleckenstein | ARTICLES: Meaningful Writing Projects Among Multilingual Undergraduate by Writers: Personal, Practical and Developmental by Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Alison Stephens, and Neal Lerner | Building Bridges and Changing the Story: Recognizing Funds of Knowledge in Summer Bridge Programs by Maria Conti Maravillas | Writing About Writing: A Snapshot in Time by Cynthia A. Cochran, Rebecca Day Babcock, and Aliethia Dean | Building Our Ideals into Program Structures: Democratic Design in Program Administration by Brad Jacobson and Rachael W. Shah | COURSE DESIGNS: BTW 250: Principles of Business Communication by A. Kay Emmert, Andrew Moss, David Morris, and Andrew Bowman | English 5519 & 700: Introduction to the Theories and Practices of Composition Teaching by Antonio Byrd and Virginia M. Schwarz | WHERE WE ARE: Ungrading: Where We Are and Where We Might Go by Ellen C. Carillo | Defining Ungrading: Alternative Writing Assessment as Jeremiad by Megan Von Bergen | Ungrading: Self-Assessment, Effort, and Motivation by Hannah T. Davis | We're All Still Grading: A Call for Honesty in Writing Assessment Discourse by Maggie Fernandes, Emily Brier, and Megan McIntyre | BOOK REVIEWS: Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips, Reviewed by Nasih Alam | Multilingual Contributions to Writing Research: Toward an Equal Academic Exchange, edited by Natalia Ávila Reyes, Reviewed by Gregg Fields | Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism, edited by Tarez Samra Graban and Wendy Hayden, Reviewed by C.C. Hendricks | Creating a Transnational Space in the First Year Writing Classroom, edited by William. Ordeman, Reviewed by Donald Joseph | Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement, by Annie S. Mendenhall, Reviewed by Jessica Edens McCrary | Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students, by Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Reviewed by Shreya Sangai | Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology: A Korean-U.S. Study, by Jay Jordan, Reviewed by Eunhee Seo | Stories of Becoming: Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric, by Claire Lutkewitte, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Molly J. Scanlon, Reviewed by Gabriella Wilson | CONTRIBUTORS | 2022 REVIEWERS

Reference Guides to Rhetoric & CompositionEditors: Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, & Mary Jo ReiffWRITING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: THEORY, RESEARCH, PEDAGOGY develops a capacious understanding of transfer in writing studies, tracing the distinct ways transfer has been engaged in various disciplinary fields and drawing connections among similar threads of inquiry. Working from a large-scale, collaborative analysis of some of the most salient long-term debates around transfer, this book guides scholars to link long and broad transfer conversations, attend to troublesome transfer problems in their teaching or research, and support both amplitude (more capacious understandings of writing transfer) and specificity (more detailed and relevant treatments of the term) in research on the transfer of writing knowledge. In addition to a detailed synthesis of multiple disciplines' treatment of transfer, the book offers five themes developed during a rigorous transdisciplinary reading of approximately seven hundred books and articles on transfer from disciplines including cognitive psychology and situated learning; sports, medical, and aviation education; second language writing; and school-to-work research, among others. Together the themes capture the interdependent relations among transfer's actors, influences, contexts, and outcomes. They also provide new frames for better understanding learners' varied and even paradoxical motivations for writing. Ultimately, the book offers value and kinship across disciplines to suggest new transfer questions, lines of inquiry, and theoretical and methodological commitments.Rebecca S. Nowacek is Professor of English at Marquette University, where she co-directs the Norman H. Ott Memorial Writing Center. Rebecca Lorimer Leonard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on language diversity, literacy studies, and research methods. Angela Rounsaville is Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Central Florida, where her research focuses on transnational literacy, genre studies, and transfer.

"Informed by years of the authors' teaching experience as well as thorough research on teamwork across multiple settings, this guide effectively brings together the practical, psychosocial, and pedagogical elements of collaboration and collaborative writing. Beautifully designed and appealingly readable, it is the finest and most comprehensive interdisciplinary text on this subject that I have seen. It should be required reading for students in every writing-intensive course."-Chris M. Anson, North Carolina State University"Here it is: a theory-based guide (or 'playbook') for students engaged in team writing that is at once resolutely practical, deeply insightful, and chock-a-block full of strategies for working successfully together. At the heart of the book is empathy-for every member of a writing team as well as for all audience members: the authors know that attitudes and feelings are directly connected to how and why team writing groups work-or don't. Sound principles of design thinking, transparency, and teamwork are at work throughout this text, as team members practice critical thinking, imaginative research strategies, and writing, writing, writing. Especially important is the discussion of 'next-level inclusivity,' which recognizes not only the importance of diverse perspectives to the quality of work a team produces but also the difficulty of achieving real inclusivity, along with practical advice for doing so. The concluding chapter importantly builds on this advice in its discussion of 'next-level collaboration,' which focuses on how team members can best understand and be open to one another, how to build trust, and how to solve problems-together. Students and instructors across the disciplines will find much food for thought-and for thoughtful practice-in this provocative and helpful book."- Andrea A. Lunsford, Stanford UniversityJoe Moses teaches collaborative writing, research, and project design in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Jason Tham (PhD, University of Minnesota) is Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Moses and Tham's first book in the Playbook Series, Collaborative Writing Playbook: An Instructor's Guide to Designing Writing Projects for Student Teams, was published by Parlor Press in 2021.

These poems continue Christopher Norris's spirited exploration of the paths by which contemporary poetry might find its way out of the self-enclosed sphere of lyric subjectivity into the larger air of philosophical, ethical, political, scientific, and environmental debate. They do so through a range of formal resources, among them rhyme and meter, which Norris regards as portals of creative-intellectual discovery and not, as free-verse practitioners would have it, artificially cramping constraints. Norris also deploys a great range of stanza forms and verse structures to demonstrate the variety of ways in which technique and prosody can serve not only to emphasize, deepen or qualify a point but to express thoughts and feelings beyond the communicative reach of prose discourse. These aspects of his work are subject to commentary in a concluding essay where Norris talks about his passage from literary theory to philosophy and thence to poetry, although-as the reader will soon discover-without having left those earlier interests behind. Indeed, it is a main concern of this collection to make the case-against dominant post-Romantic or Modernist conceptions-that a poem can justifiably put forward certain ideas, propositions, or hypotheses that ask to be assessed in rational-critical as well as aesthetic or literary-critical terms. Norris is very clear that his kind of formalism is strictly a matter of verse-technique or structure and no part of any larger, doctrinally driven autonomist program, like that of the 'old' New Criticism, that treats poems as purely verbal artifacts self-sealed against any such alien intrusions as history, biography, or the meddlesome prose intellect. These poems are intended as mind-openers whose formal elements are always in the service of a deeper, more lucid, and creative engagement with their diverse topics and concerns.What People Are SayingExploring the relationship between poetry, literary criticism, theory, and philosophy, Norris has the earned authority of an expert in all four fields. Yet there's a disarming playfulness in his engagement with the reader, and he makes complex argument memorably musical by mining the resources of meter and rhyme. Deploying a dazzling array of poetic forms - from villanelle, terza rima and sonnet to ballad and acrostic-this collection is a tour de force of wit, intellect, political verve and musicality: in short, a major achievement. -Lucy Newlyn, author of Reading, Writing, and RomanticismEminent philosophers, or literary theorists, do not usually turn, all of sudden, into fully-formed, metrically-perfect and highly-formalized poets; but that is the trick or magic of Christopher Norris. And in this his latest volume of poetry the magic is all the more magical for often silently becoming the very subject of his poems. Witness talk of William Empson's "late-style change of hats," or James Joyce's Daedalus slipping "the scholar's leash." Here then, juggling his hats as he goes, Scholar Norris is well-and-truly on the run. And, as the Runaway himself writes, "just North of here the games begin."- John Schad, author of Paris Bride: A Modernist LifeAbout the AuthorChristopher Norris is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University in Wales, where he taught for four decades. He is the author and editor of more than forty books on topics in philosophy, literary theory, politics, music, and the history of ideas. More recently, he has published ten volumes of poetry ranging from lyrics and reflective verse to philosophical verse-essays and political satires. Academically he is best known for his extensive writing on the poet and literary critic William Empson and for his many books and essays on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction.

New Measure Poetry Prize WinnerFree Verse EditionsEdited by Jon ThompsonWhat People Are SayingIn & there's you still thrill hour of the world to love, Aby Kaupang constructs a new world order out of loss and erasure much like Christine de Pizan does in her medieval book The Book of the City of Ladies. Kaupang's poems erect a discovered city, still dripping with seawater from its retrieval from the depths of the sea. In this city, we see through the windows: what it is like to grow into becoming the parent of a differently abled child; what it is like to be a woman in this world. Her poems are kinetic and immersive; they draw you into their orbit. I ate this book up and left feeling like I had learned a new way to see the world. -Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of West: Fire: Archive and Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer.An inventive, crisp-as-green-apple lyric impulse pours through these poems that rarely lose sight of Capitalism's power over locale: "dear makers of the machine." Aby Kaupang's & there's you still thrill hour of the world to love is made of buffalo wind, a Western place, art, a family torn and bound lovingly by disability, Beckettian humor, and formal invention. But most central to this book is its striking concern with looking. Alternate vantages shift, a gaze burrows deep into a dark bodily interior. In these poems the intertwining activity of the visual and the verbal is so delicately woven, inevitable--shifting, darting like our powers of observation, perception, consciousness. A beautiful meditation, a collage of dual art, a distinctive music of "miracle and practice," & there's you still thrill hour of the world to love is a book singing its resistance songs and love notes while looking back at itself as it coaxes us back to ourselves. Reading it evokes sensation, and many of them. "And" the book says, and "&." This book invites and invites. What an imaginative feat. -Gillian Conoley, author of Peace and Tall Stranger Aby Kaupang's porous, supple poems invite the reader into spaces of existential neighborliness, spaces where homing instincts tether us to landscapes, other people, and other species in a palpable web of interbeing: "I too am a part of the snowy junipers & the street lamp & the evening" and "I too am a part of the core of the world." Each of these prismatic poems takes up its own utterances and revolves them, reprising and remixing phrases to preserve their errors and swerves, a process that yields language more pliable and tender, truer to human experience of hours, of time itself. -B.K. Fischer, author of Ceive and RadioapocryphaAbout the AuthorAby Kaupang is the author of & there's you still thrill hour of the world to love, Radiant Tether, NOS, disorder not otherwise specified (with Matthew Cooperman), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me, and multiple other collections. She holds master's degrees in creative writing and occupational therapy. Employed outside of academia, she practices as an occupational therapist and nurse's aide specializing in treating neurodivergent and special needs children. Aby lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she assists in organizing an annual book festival, hosts the reading series, Every Eye, and has served as Poet Laureate. More information can be found at abykaupang.com.

Electracy and Transmedia StudiesSeries Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia HaynesAddressed to digital humanists, Reimagining the Humanities updates our methods for engaging with ideology and technology, drawing on a broad range of practices informed by collective challenges and an ongoing state of crisis. Voices in the collection range from graduate students to established scholars, drawn from across humanities disciplines, all seeking to reimagine the humanities at a time when many disciplines are facing both a loss of resources and political support, as well as the demands of rapidly changing classrooms, campuses, and external institutions. We recognize that shifts in information technologies call for different ways of knowing and that it is our responsibility to invent humanist methods for theorizing, teaching, and experimenting within these emerging technical-ideological apparatuses of what Gregory Ulmer has termed our "electrate" age. Most importantly, we ask how these understandings must be addressed differently through transdisciplinary humanist education at a time when disinformation is dominant in the technical landscape that shapes our classrooms and communities. The collection includes a digital compendium of projects: https://bit.ly/reimagining-humanities.Contributors include Carissa Baker, Cassandra Branham, Erik Champion, James Paul Gee, Meghan Griffin, Kenton Taylor Howard, Jessica Kester, Jessica Lipsey, Dan Martin, David Matteson, Barry Mauer, Marci Mazzarotto, Stuart Moulthrop, Laura Okkema, Anastasia Salter, Craig Saper, Nathan Snow, Kirk St.Amant, Gregory L. Ulmer, and Jennifer Wojton.

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize¿¿¿¿A multilayered book and performance, A Short History of Anger speaks through fragments, fractures, song, and the voices of a Greek Chorus. This lament confronts the massacre of Greek citizens in the 1922 Destruction of Smyrna, and the buried traces of this tragedy as they haunt the poet's family history. Governed by its musical, ritualistic construction, it excavates a legacy of genocide and displacement that resonates through successive generations.What People Are Saying"Joy Manesiotis is a brilliant poet, one who understands, that lyric, as Joseph Brodsky once insisted, is a soul's release into language. So, watch how the line-breaks, sentences, precise orchestrations and wonders of syntax work in her poems, how they move us to a different register of human emotions, how they open doors we did not know exist. Manesiotis is wonder poet, one whose work I admire deeply." -Ilya Kaminsky, authorof Dancing In Odessa and Deaf Republic"When a great catastrophe, the genocide of the Greeks of Smyrna, is immured in silence, does collective horror harbor in the genes-the blood line a long fuse smoldering with hidden fire, 'Smyrna burning and burning....' How to speak of such things? But 'who will sing the moirolaia to help the souls cross over?' In answer, voices­-ancestral, choral, personal-rise from the ashes in this eloquent moirolaia of Joy Manesiotis: recovered history, lamentation, remembrance, release." -Eleanor Wilner, author of Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017"When, in Anna Akhmatova's famous poem, she was asked 'Can you describe this?' about an atrocity she lived through, she replied, 'Yes, I can.' In A Short History of Anger, Joy Manesiotis lifts the same burden of responsibility to her own shoulders, and the beautiful, heartbreaking poem she made here could have been written a thousand years ago, or yesterday. And the terrible thing is, when I look up from this book, our landscape is the same as inside it: on fire. When no remedy is coming, poets at least make it possible to sit in the dirt and weep. Sit here with me. I would count it a privilege to hold your hand and keen these poems together." -Patrick Donnelly, author of Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The ChargeAbout the AuthorJOY MANESIOTIS is the author of They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Recently, she has staged A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre-comprised of a Speaker and Greek Chorus-at international festivals and universities in the US and Europe.Free Verse EditionsSeries Editor: Jon Thompson