About Rocks and Writing
In Rocks and Writing, students spent the semester virtually exploring the topography and geography of Arizona while reading texts that helped them understand how Arizona’s landscape created the cultures of those who have lived there. The overarching themes of the course was how place creates both our homes and ourselves.
Below are essays, stories, poems, and graphic pieces that explore Arizona or home.
The class assignments included the following:
- Creation Stories: creative works that explored how our homelands created us
- Speculative Obituaries: Using Humane Border’s maps, which document. Mexico/US border deaths by name, date, and cause of death, students speculated on the lives and deaths of those who died trying to reach America.
- Poems of People and Place: Poems that focus on place and home.
Table of Contents:
1. Christy Paulin: Moving, a Bittersweet Journey: a Creation Story
2. Yorke Kwabia-Mensah: If You were in Kumasi: a Creation Story
3. Teddy Tonna: Saint Spyridon: a Creation Story
4. Christy Paulin: Obituary: Ana Maria Rojas Fragosa
5. Vinny Fugere: Obituary: Consuelo Odilia Oxlaj Sacche
6. Yorke Kwabia-Mensah: Obituary: Felipe Moreno
7. Alyssa Cilento: Obituary: Eduardo Alvarado-Diaz
8. Jenna Jones: Never Know: Poems of People and Place
9. Jenna Jones: Fall: Poems of People and Place
10. Octavia Crawford: Bittersweet: Poems of People and Place
