{"id":3257,"date":"2019-05-08T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:59:16","slug":"of-poems-shared-and-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2019\/05\/08\/of-poems-shared-and-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Poems Shared and Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Paige<\/em> — Sometimes you wonder where inspiration comes from. Other times, it\u2019s obvious.<\/p>\n

Jordan Ogle \u201919 is a writer. The English literature major with a philosophy minor loves poetry. \u201cThis is my dream to study poetry and to share that with anyone who is willing to listen,\u201d he told me recently.<\/p>\n

I asked how he got hooked on poetry. Turns out, it was his grandmother, Carrie Phillips.<\/p>\n

She was a factory worker in Clinton, Indiana, for the majority of her life. High school educated, Carrie never went to college, but she has long written poetry and shares that with Jordan. He remembers those poems, stuffed in her Bible, and her reading them with him as far back as elementary school.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe kept those in her Bible and she would read them to me,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a way for her to express<\/p>\n

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Jordan Ogle \u201919.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

herself and the frustration of living as a working-class woman and a single mom, but also a way for her to express the kind of beauty she saw in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now all these years later, poetry has become the centerpiece of Jordan\u2019s academic interests. They still share poetry today, and I\u2019d bet such an exchange brings a smile to her face.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though she didn\u2019t go to college and study poetry in a scholarly sense, she understands, and what I have to say about poetry resonates with her,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhat I\u2019m doing now makes her happy, probably because it\u2019s what she wishes she had the opportunity to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Ogle earned a Fulbright U.K. Partner fellowship and will study at the University of Exeter in England next year. Further, he has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at the University of Iowa and will begin studies when his master\u2019s work at Exeter is completed.<\/p>\n

Jordan was named a Julia Rosenberg Writing Scholar last fall, earned distinction on his comprehensive exams, and was an honoree at Awards Chapel multiple times, including the Walter L. Fertig Prize in English.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t always easy for Ogle. He\u2019s battled mental health issues while here and showed remarkable resilience in becoming the first person in his family to graduate from college and the first to travel abroad.<\/p>\n

Still, the next step to Exeter is a big one.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will miss me,\u201d he starts, \u201cbut she is excited for me. All of the work I\u2019ve put in at Wabash, to taking care of my mental health, to taking care of my family back home, has all been worth it in the end, and I think she feels that, too. I think about how lucky I am to even be here today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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