{"id":2299,"date":"2018-10-16T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:48:48","slug":"adjunct-publishes-book-about-marylands-eastern-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/16\/adjunct-publishes-book-about-marylands-eastern-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjunct Publishes Book About Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column2299_8c96eb-47 dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2299_626339-2f\"]{font-size:1.5rem;line-height:30px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:proxima-nova;color:#808080;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2299_626339-2f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2299_626339-2f\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading2299_626339-2f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2299_626339-2f\">An avid outdoorsman and newspaper sports writer and columnist, College of Arts &amp; Sciences adjunct instructor Christopher Knauss recently published \u201cShore-Ku, Haiku inspired by the Eastern Shore,\u201d based on his experiences quietly observing life on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"309\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arts-768x1195-360x560-1-309x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arts-768x1195-360x560-1-309x480.jpg 309w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arts-768x1195-360x560-1-161x250.jpg 161w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arts-768x1195-360x560-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An avid outdoorsman and newspaper sports writer and columnist, College of Arts &amp; Sciences adjunct instructor Christopher Knauss recently published \u201cShore-Ku, Haiku inspired by the Eastern Shore,\u201d based on his experiences quietly observing life on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI became interested in the form of haiku poetry because it\u2019s concise and usually involves nature, which I like to learn about,\u201d says Knauss, who is also the cooperative education coordinator for the college. \u201cIt\u2019s also something that you can do in your head while you\u2019re driving and I drive around the Eastern Shore a lot, for work and for pleasure. When I saw something that was interesting, I tried to represent it in 17 syllables, and I could usually remember it enough to write it down when I got to a computer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is divided into four chapters, one for each season. The haiku offer many reflections on wildlife, which is traditional for that style of poetry, but he\u2019s also added such themes as sports, cars, children (his own included), and other tiny snapshots of rural life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He notes he enjoys taking photographs, and many are sprinkled throughout the pages in black and white. \u201cI softened them up a bit using a watercolor filter in Photoshop,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knauss says he worked on the book, on and off, for about 10 years. He is currently working to create a nature center in northern Caroline County, Maryland, and he says he wanted to get the book completed so he could focus on that project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed the process,\u201d he says of putting the book together. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit autobiographical and I got to chronicle my family life a bit. Overall, I\u2019m pretty happy with the final result and I think it does a fairly good job of representing life on the Eastern Shore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cShore-Ku,\u201d is published by Sandy Isle Books of Goldsboro, Maryland.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avid outdoorsman and newspaper sports writer and columnist, College of Arts &amp; Sciences adjunct instructor Christopher Knauss recently published \u201cShore-Ku, Haiku inspired by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rebecca Slinger","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rebecca\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14757,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/14757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}