10 January 2025

Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski

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Sarah Rusinowski is a teacher of AP Literature and AP Language and Composition. She did her graduate work at the University of Alabama.

Unwoven:

What difference in a little poetic structure?  Across 17 traditional forms of poetry–from ballad and sonnet to ghazal and ZaniLa Rhyme–writer, podcaster, and educator Steve Chisnell juxtaposes similar poems in both traditional styles and free verse, “Poetry of Form and Release,” to explore the effects of poetic construction on meaning itself. Along the way, his speakers find their lives torn, unraveled, or dangling as they wrestle with aging, memory, love, myth, and the promise of language. From Waywords Studio, Chisnell’s first book is a layered and provocative collection rich in ironies and meanings found not merely in its words but in the patterns beneath them, not merely in the verse but in the spaces between. The book includes an extensive section of author notes on the inspiration for the poems and as a primer on the meaning in forms. More extensive materials for classroom students and teachers are also available. 

Chapters

00:00 Intro
01:40 How Does Unwoven Fit Needs & Waywords?
03:25 Poetry Book or Teaching Tool?
05:11 Pairing Forms for Teaching
11:23 Meaning and Author’s Intention
13:33 How Structure Permeates Poetry
16:52 Poetry About Teaching & Learning
20:16 Where Should Teachers Start?
23:02 What Are the Teacher Supplements?
25:55 Picking & Choosing What to Teach
26:51 Closing
27:42 Literary Nomads Trailer

Transcript:  https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-unwoven-interview-2-teacher-sarah-rusinowski/

Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.

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CREDITS:

Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)

Theme for Unwoven by Randon Myles.

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MLA CITATION:

Chisnell, Steve. “Unwoven Interview #2: Sarah Rusinowski.” Waywords Studio, 10 Jan. 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/unwoven-interview-2-teacher-sarah-rusinowski.

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