Even after 25 years, Sept. 11, 2001, remains forever embedded in the memories of those who experienced it. For Robert McDowell, adjunct instructor in the Department of English at Kent State University, poetry provides space for revisiting those memories and exploring the emotions that can be difficult to capture within the pages of history books. “To everyone alive back then, it was like time stood still. We all knew it was a signature event,” McDowell told Kent State Today. “It was bigger than anything that had happened in the country before.” McDowell creates imagery around ...
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