Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
3-2020
College/Unit
WVU Libraries
Abstract
This poster presents a transcript poem created with murder tales in oral history recordings. Leveraging the creative arts of storytelling, transcript poetry and visual orality, the poster brings light and music to Appalachian storyteller voices in tales of shady murders.
The handout presents the poem with visual orality methods juxtaposed beside Standard English orthographic transcription, enabling a visual comparison, a link a video with graphic text and the original voice recordings, and brief readings about concepts and methods.
Digital Commons Citation
Toren, Beth Jane, "A Damn Short Prayer" (2020). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1248.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1248
Transcript poem in graphic format
CHANGE MY MIND.pdf (10122 kB)
Conclusions from the project
ASA 2020 Poetry Handout.pdf (544 kB)
Poem, two transcriptions, methods, readings, results
Included in
American Literature Commons, Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Commons, Appalachian Studies Commons, Art Practice Commons, Folklore Commons, Linguistic Anthropology Commons, Poetry Commons, Reading and Language Commons