Here's a quick bit of an article for those of the college grads who will be returning home.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
From the issue dated May 22, 2009
JUST ASKING
Verses of Economy
By STEVE KOLOWICH
Poetry is all about economy. Words are used with precision and thrift. But not all poetry is about economics. In fact, almost none of it is, and that is a tragedy, says Stephen T. Ziliak, an economics professor at Roosevelt University. "An economics without poetry" he says, "is an economics that is blind."
To supplement their studies, Mr. Ziliak encourages his economics students to compose haiku, the Japanese poetry that consists of three lines of verse in a 5-7-5 syllabic order. He assigns haiku challenges for bonus points on exams, and even holds haiku workshops as part of a course on rhetoric in economics.
Q: Mom and Dad, I'm home!
The job market is nasty —
Where is my bedroom?
A: Invisible hand:
Mother of inflated hope,
Mistress of despair!
Copyright © 2009 by The Chronicle of Higher Education
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