{"id":70523,"date":"2004-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-poet-pens-the-station-nightclub\/"},"modified":"2004-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-poet-pens-the-station-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/11\/uri-poet-pens-the-station-nightclub\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 poet pens \u2018The Station nightclub\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPoem will be published in Bryant Literary Review<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. — November 3, 2004 — Don Kunz, professor of English and film studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站 didn\u2019t intend to write a poem about the horrific fire at The Station nightclub that claimed 100 lives and injured almost 200 others in 2003. Yet the constant retelling of the event by the media began to work on him like the replaying of an automobile accident. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cMy mind would keep drifting back over details of the catastrophe as if I could somehow find a different conclusion to it by rehearsing alternative versions,\u201d says Kunz, a Warwick resident. \u201cI kept thinking that this is what the victims themselves must be doing every minute of their lives. That’s what I tried to capture in the poem–that even if you survived the flames, you would somehow continue to be consumed by them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tKunz has been writing poetry for nearly three decades. His poems have appeared in various publications. \u201cThe Station nightclub\u201d has been selected for publication in Bryant Literary Review, an international magazine of poetry and fiction published annually in May. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe professor, who also writes and publishes short fiction, teaches a variety of English and film courses including creative writing, cinematic auteurs and film genres. He was a co-director of the 1999 Honor Colloquium series, Legacies of the Vietnam War, the subject of a course he teaches and a sometime subject of his fiction and scholarly articles.<\/p>\n


\n\tEver since he started teaching creative writing, Kunz has always done the writing exercises along with his students. Those exercises have often led to poems. Inspirations for other poems come in dreams or begin with a phrase he\u2019s overheard in conversation.<\/p>\n


\nA cluster of his poems involve his reactions to other works of art, such as paintings or photographs. \u201cI especially like the idea of one work of art inspiring another work of art,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n


\nKunz will retire at the end of this semester. He and his wife plan to move to Bend, Oregon where he will hike, mountain bike, swim, and go on wilderness horse trips and they will cross country ski. While his wife continues her award-winning photography, Kunz will continue writing. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cFor me writing a poem is exactly the opposite of writing an essay,\u201d he says. \u201cIn an essay, you want to tell people unambiguously what they should think or feel about something. In a poem you want to recreate an experience in a richly ambiguous way so that a wide variety of readers will discover multiple ways to understand and feel about what you have described.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tKunz\u2019s \u201cThe Station nightclub\u201d poem follows:<\/p>\n


\nThe Station nightclub<\/p>\n


\nHow can they not still dream of fire?

\nEverything has turned black:

\nFirst the night, then the hard rock stars.<\/p>\n


\nEverywhere charred and twisted ghosts

\nCough toward smoke-filled exits,

\nTheir dreams trampling dreams.<\/p>\n


\nIn their dark sleep they rehearse escape,

\nPlotting to quench the flames again

\nListening to the tongues flicker.<\/p>\n


\nThey recall voices buzzing electric as neon

\nAdvertising the fire this time, every time,

\nAnd walls flaming like newly mined coal.<\/p>\n


\nHow can one night fuel but not exhaust itself?

\nHow can they not still dream of fire,

\nOf all those dead who consume them?<\/p>\n


\nDon Kunz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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