{"id":6137,"date":"2025-09-12T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:24","slug":"k-saa-2025-2027-public-outreach-initiative-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6137","title":{"rendered":"K-SAA 2025-2027 Public Outreach Initiative: Birdsong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Keats-Shelley Association of America welcomes teachers and instructors of all levels to connect with us and share how they have incorporated (or plan to incorporate) birdsong into their teaching of writing and literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our public outreach theme of birdsong is designed to address audiences on multiple levels. It aims to reach high school and undergraduate students, as well as members of the general public who may be curious about Romantic poetry; and it also aims to reach scholars and teachers who are interested in connecting British Romantic poetry to modern and contemporary poetry in English, to poetry in other languages, historical periods, and parts of the world, making interdisciplinary connections to environmental and sound studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the Birdsong initiative&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.k-saa.org%2Fbirdsong&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAmy.Wilcockson%40glasgow.ac.uk%7C7ec3b883a92b49d401aa08ddf200fe19%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C638932808524674223%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7Bd0UbJVXFWW6XlBy8yaVghcT2c81Shmrq7LlZgJe5k%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact us at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"mailto:kacie.wills@hancockcollege.edu\">kacie.wills@hancockcollege.edu<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;if you&#8217;d like to share short essays about your experience or teaching materials, including assignments, syllabi, readings, or student work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materials will be compiled and published on the K-SAA website.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit our&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.k-saa.org%2Fcommonplacing&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAmy.Wilcockson%40glasgow.ac.uk%7C7ec3b883a92b49d401aa08ddf200fe19%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C638932808524694874%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ADkup%2FOuQ1q9Xl3iYj%2F7m1w9F5SnBZ8jAx1xLGO7OT8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Commonplacing 2023-25&nbsp;<\/a>pages for examples of the kinds of work we&#8217;ve assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<br>Kacie L. Wills, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of EnglishAllan Hancock College<em>Keats-Shelley Journal+&nbsp;<\/em>Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaciewills.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAmy.Wilcockson%40glasgow.ac.uk%7C7ec3b883a92b49d401aa08ddf200fe19%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C638932808524706929%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WiHVJGksH6kbpHGVfHkqaPrKEguSOeTyNwbroL%2F5%2BW4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">kaciewills.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Keats-Shelley Association of America welcomes teachers and instructors of all levels to connect with us and share how they have incorporated (or plan to incorporate) birdsong into their teaching&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6137\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}