Utilizing PDCM to Analyze How Comparable Liberal Arts Institutions Evaluate Poems
Graduation Year
2019
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Abstract
In We Need To Talk: A New Method for Evaluating Poetry (2018), Michael Theune and Bob Broad present a study that employs a version of their “Poetry Dynamic Criteria Mapping” (PDCM) methodology to empirically and inductively investigate the implicit criteria that went into the selection of poems. I employ a version of PDCM in my study. I coded and analyzed 752 poems from the past three years’ issues of nine creative arts journals from liberal arts institutions in the same academic conference. Two important patterns emerged: (1) the vast majority of the poems are outgrowths of confessional poetry: free verse, serious, introspective, and focused on emotion, and (2) few poems seem aligned with other values, including those espoused by avant-garde, slam, and socially and politically engaged poetry.
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Kauerauf, Abigail, "Utilizing PDCM to Analyze How Comparable Liberal Arts Institutions Evaluate Poems" (2019). Honors Projects. 49.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/eng_honproj/49
Comments
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