Mejia, Jennyfer

Mr. Wisner

World History

Period 3rd

Date 9/2/2016

Poetic portraits of migration: Karen McCarthy Woolf

and Sophie Herxheimer

*Your Task

Link to article

Key Vocabulary from the Article (Define at least 4).

o Witty- showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor.

o Nuanced- a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
o Unheralded- not previously announced, expected, or recognized.
o Congregate- gather in a crowd or mass

Summary of the Event (at least 3 major points; each point will have its own
paragraph)

A. Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf gives voices to stories that are not heard in current
media. She gives migration a topic that promotes and influences the political and
cultural landscape a humorous look. Karen poems are interleaved with
illustrations by Sophie Herxheimer, who collected migration stories from people.
McCarthy Woolf composed a clutch of new work which overturns traditional
hyperbole, that uses both banter and passion to present a more meaningful take
on origins identity and movement.

B. McCarthy Woolf worked with a poet and artist named Sophie Herxheimer on the
pamphlet. Sophie fluid black ink story drawings illustrate the migratory
documentions of visitors to the museum, and the refugees she met through the
South London Refugee Association. The collaboration of McCarthys poetry and
Herxheimers illustrations is the extraordinary individuals with dramatic migratory
stories, which many of them go unheard.

C. The stories of McCarthy and Sophie are distinctive from all sorts of people, so
some stories can be more complex than others. Herxheimer tells the author from
 the article that we are all mobile creatures and that even if we don't go far in
the physical world then at least we are all migrants of time and the imagination.
Which shows how she collaborates the migrants in the poems and illustration.
The poems are thoughtful, timeless and resonant.

Your Opinion of the Event (at least 3 sentences).

In my opinion the creation of the migration poems are truly amazing, and I agree how
Herxheimer describes us as mobile creature to the author of the article. The
collaboration between both Sophie Herxheimer and Karen McCarthy Woolf is beautiful,
they make the stories of migration humorous and extremely appealing. I also believe the
role poetry could play in healing some of the prejudice and calming some fear that is
sometimes seen in debates about migration.

Relate your Event to a Historical Event (compare and contrast with current
event).

The article Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob
Lawrence by Hansi Lo Wang talked about the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. The article
showed the paintings of Jacob which really showed a story of the journeys of millions of
African-Americans who left the Jim Crow South in search of better lives elsewhere.
Stories of the paintings were similar to the poems and illustration by McCarthy Woolf
and Sophie Herxheimer that were about the stories refugees and migration of people
theyve met. Although it was similar Jacob Lawrence paintings had more details that told
the story of millions of African-Americans. The article also talked about Jim Crow laws
that summarize racial inequality, and how the painting One of the largest race riots
occurred in East St. Louis was a reflection of life. While the article Poetic portraits of
migration: Karen McCarthy Woolf and Sophie Herxheimer talked about the
collaboration of both Karen Woolf and Sophie Herxheimer and briefly the migrations
stories about the people.

Relate your Event to the a Theme (at least 3 sentences). SEE BACK FOR THEMES

The theme I relate to my event is migration and patterns of settlement. The way the
poems were related to migration is they created a humorous applying way to talk about
the stories of people's journeys. They also have an illustration that can help you imagine
the event along with the poem. The poems tell you a contrast of peoples stories of all
over the world. It really helps you understand migration a lot better and help you view it
in a different way.

Questions You Have About the Event (4).

What inspired Karen and Sophie to make poems of the migration of different people?
Can poetry play in healing some of the prejudice?
Is migration a two way street?
Can migration cause an era characterised by resource-based wars and
ideologically-justified violence?
THEMES:

1.Cultural Interaction
2.Political Structures
o Religions
o State-building, expansion, and conflict
o Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies o Empires o Science and technology o
Nations and nationalism

o The arts and architecture o Revolts and revolutions

3.Economic Structures

4.Social Structures
o Agricultural and pastoral production o Gender roles and relations o Trade and commerce
o Family and kinship
o Labor systems
o Racial and ethnic constructions
o Industrialization
o Social and economic classes
o Economic theories

5.Human-Environment Interaction
o Disease
o Migration & patterns of settlement o Population growth

o Technology

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