{"id":301,"date":"2015-05-13T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:35:34","slug":"celebrating-plato-womens-studies-and-the-poetry-of-simon-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/05\/13\/celebrating-plato-womens-studies-and-the-poetry-of-simon-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Plato, Women&#8217;s Studies, and the Poetry of Simon Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Sigma Tau Delta members Lindsey Pelucacci,\u00a0Maria Cleary, Lizzy Polishan, and Alex Wasalinko first read this year&#8217;s Common Reader&#8211;Simon Ortiz&#8217;s book of poems, <em>From Sand Creek&#8211;<\/em>they wanted to discuss it with other readers. \u00a0So last fall they organized a round table discussion of the book for a dozen interested readers; \u00a0then they took their show on the road&#8211;to Albuquerque for the national convention, where they met Simon Ortiz. \u00a0Then they came back to Scranton, and presented the results of their study in a poster at the 15th Annual Celebration of Student Scholars, May 5, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Their discussion, which ranged across cultural and philosophical borders, aimed to &#8220;break down the borders&#8221; between Native American and Western thought<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"302\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/05\/13\/celebrating-plato-womens-studies-and-the-poetry-of-simon-ortiz\/image2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1426799373&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/files\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Student members of Sigma Tau Delta (Lindsey Pelucacci, Alex Wasalinko, and Lizzy Polishan) meet Simon Ortiz (left).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When Sigma Tau Delta members Lindsey Pelucacci,\u00a0Maria Cleary, Lizzy Polishan, and Alex Wasalinko first read this year&#8217;s Common Reader&#8211;Simon Ortiz&#8217;s book of poems, From Sand Creek&#8211;they wanted to discuss it with other readers. \u00a0So last fall they organized a round table discussion of the book for a dozen interested readers; \u00a0then they took their<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/05\/13\/celebrating-plato-womens-studies-and-the-poetry-of-simon-ortiz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Celebrating Plato, Women&#8217;s Studies, and the Poetry of Simon Ortiz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-english-honor-society-sigma-tau-delta","category-studentsuccessstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2015\/01\/23\/roundtable-discussion-crossing-borders-among-ortiz-plato-feminism\/","url_meta":{"origin":301,"position":0},"title":"Two Scranton English Majors to Host Discussion on Crossing Borders between Ortiz &amp; 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