Posted on July 19, 2011 - by nshaw

NRHC Portland Conference Presidential Address

During the Portland Conference this Spring, NRHC President Julia Fennell’s offered students a creative connection between poetry and the daily life of an honors student in her presidential address. Her speech, “The Poetry of Honors” connected the conference to National Poetry Month, as the conference took place mostly in April.

She suggested that being an honors student and reading a poem have much in common, specifically how one approaches both tasks. “Honors education and reading a poem require similar mindsets,” she said, “Both interactions require that we do the following: Inhabit the Room, Play in the Dark, and Conspire and Collaborate.”

The full text of her speech – in which she expands upon these three ideas – can be found here.