It was agreed that academic literacy meant the ability to use academic conventions in writing essays, academic reading strategies for printed and online texts, and metacognition through reflection.
In their introduction to the collection of essays, academics Richard Grayson and Jonathan Rutherford write that "the crisis has left the elites trapped in the discredited neoliberal orthodoxy of the past".
The shame from that earlier generation has been burned off, and we see the proof of it in the very poetry we are talking about; and via the interview we understand, perhaps more deeply than we could via an essay or academic study, that the act of writing has made that possible.
There are books upon books: about Marley's life, his early life, the making of his albums; coffee-table volumes; photo essays; highbrow academic texts; tell-alls by those close to him (mother, wife, son, manager).
In an admiring essay, the academics Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton noted the power of an artistic language "to invoke, to compel, to falsify first, if need be, the thing one wishes into being".
Unlike your college essays or academic paper, nobody is being paid to read your carefully crafted words, they will not feel duty-bound to plough through dense paragraphs of important findings while marvelling at how clever you are.
This year organizers have gathered close to 2,200 books of, and about, poetry: anthologies; chapbooks; translations; poetry-related prose (essays, memoirs, academic works, biographies); poetry objects (poetry baseball cards, a series of poetry postcards); and multimedia titles published in the 14 months since the 2009 showcase.
In a recent book called "Coffee Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate," a collection of essays by academics and foodies, there is an interview with Matt Lounsbury, Stumptown's director of operations.
The rash of suicide rulings is troubling to Vivian Lord, editor of Suicide By Cop, a collection of essays by academics and criminal justice professionals on the subject that was updated and republished last year, a decade after its release.
But James Bond has become a pop culture superstar and this volume of 14 essays by academics celebrates the remarkable global influence of 007 and "spy mania" in general, on areas of life from TV to advertising.
