Editor's Note, November 2007
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
Columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with a poem titled “Thanksgiving to Those Who Have Gone Before Us” befitting the reflective nature of the holiday season.
Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the third installment of his children’s novel titled “Quibils and Quirks”. The original text of this work was serialized in The Cariboo Observer during 1997 through 1999. According to Lukiv, this project, consisting of 108 short chapters, is designed for serialization and works perfectly for teachers who like reading to their students daily. As such, we will be running this novel with eleven chapters per issue through the May 2008 issue of AEE. Please refer to the August 2007 issue to read the “Forward” to this inventive work.
The last feature of this issue is titled “The Female Void in a World of Masculine Readers.” Author Karenina Lines states:
For centuries, women have been neglected as being a representative part of the literary canon. Although women are now gradually attaining equality within society as a whole, female representation in the canon is still lacking. Students are often taught by reading works out of literary anthologies, anthologies which consistently include a primarily male authorship. As females become more equally represented in the societal arena, they must also be more fairly represented as literary models to students. This article discusses the implications of this argument, and possible solutions to fill the gap between what is and what should be.
This month’s Poet’s Corner contribution, “Meditative Poetics exploring a Reinventive Education”, come to us from Marlene de Beer, who states of her poem: “The meditative poetics and images explore a reinventive education that calls educators to hold sacred a deeper organic potential. It’s time to awaken! A new genesis of spiritual presence that is neither the alpha nor the omega in the co-creating spiralling pendulum…”
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