Poetry. At first glance, Laura McCullough's collection, SPEECH ACTS&mdash;borrowing its title from the branch of linguistics interested in the nature and intention of artifacts of language and their effect in communication&mdash;may seem overly sensational, the surface subject matter at times blatantly sexual, but on closer interrogation, McCullough is attempting to strip away the obfuscations of language(s), the barriers between genders, the difficulties of intimacy and reveal the relational and power balances between people. Behind the sometimes erotically charged poems in SPEECH ACTS is a real concern for linguistics, the philosophy of, the tools of. Beneath the bawdy, glittering surface and language play in Speech Acts is McCullough's desire to "kiss the mouth of another/ language," to go beyond the veils that separate people, nations, perhaps this world from whatever comes after. These poems are not just about love; they grieve over the impossibility of ever fully comprehending anything at all, let alone another human being.

Speech Acts

Literature & Fiction

McCullough, Laura

Poetry

Black Lawrence Press

"This practical guide details the characteristics of high-quality microcredentials and provides guidelines for choosing them, models for designing them, implementation strategies, and lots of examples"--

Building Educator Capacity Through Microcredentials

Education & Teaching

Carbaugh, Eric M.

Raftery, Meghan

Linaburg, Ebbie

Schools & Teaching

ASCD

Poetry, "If you, like the speaker in Laura McCullough's poem, 'Almost Nothing Something [stars / plates / cells]' have grown 'tired & suspicious of poetry' WOMEN AND OTHER HOSTAGES will absolutely revitalize you. These are riveting, wholly moving narratives of a life lived. Out of sorrow McCullough invokes a stunning grace where 'What is stripped from you' becomes a gift because 'what's left behind is all your own.' Women of all circumstances inhabit these poems. They shed their skin like snakes, 'memory in flesh,' and consider the bones of what holds us together in these divisive times. This beautiful book will knock loose what is lodged in your heart."--Suzanne Frischkorn

Women and Other Hostages

Literary

Poetry. "Set along the Jersey shore, before and after Hurricane Sandy, these narratives vividly capture the lives and speech of Jersey denizens like Mercy, a young waitresses, and Tino, a boardwalk musician. Piers, racetracks, and bars endure natural disasters. Mercy, too, endures. McCullough's craft is striking. Her portraits are empathic, alive. The lines are drenched with music. Words surge, crash precisely on the page. JERSEY MERCY is a gorgeous interrogation of language and landscape."—Eduardo C. Corral

Jersey Mercy

This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that women in physics careers face. Looking at all of these topics with one eye on the progress that the field has made in the past few years, and another on those things that we have yet to address, the book surveys the most current research as it tries to identify strategies and topics that have significant impact on issues that women have in the field.

Women and Physics (Iop Concise Physics)

Science & Math

Physics

IOP Concise Physics

Through portraits painted in a muted palette, Panic embraces the ratcheting music of grief. Laura McCullough strives to uncover secrets beneath the platitudinal. Her narrative lyrics juxtapose private and public despair, portraying isolated stoicism against the backdrop of rippling disorder.

Panic

Alice James Books

From Rigorous Standards to Student Achievement: A Practical Process

This book showcases strategies which support teachers and principals as they implement high standards for students. At the same time, it demonstrates how to meet the needs of diverse learners.

From Rigorous Standards to Student Achievement

Routledge

Poetry. Poems located in the interstices of parenting and politics that vibrate with heat, anger, and strange grace. Rife with guns, tattoos, booze, wounds, and lost teeth, these explosive narrative lyrics imagine what it means to try and fail and still go on.

Rigger Death and Hoist Another

United States

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