{"id":2658,"date":"2026-07-08T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:12:39","slug":"appear-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/appear-before\/","title":{"rendered":"appear before."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1630\" height=\"2496\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 175 of Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d. The background is predominantly drawn over in green marker. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message. Images of nature have been pasted over the blacked-out portions of the text.\n\" class=\"wp-image-2659\" style=\"width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1.jpg 1630w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-1337x2048.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-940x1439.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/appear-before-1-400x613.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Sara Stillitano<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">appear before.<br>me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dwell upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My own<br>narration.<br>My father lived; but<br>wandered lost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">affection<br>clings to<br>grey hairs,<br>the springs of existence<br>gave way: to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">darkness<br>meadows<br>of my youth;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">called me<br>solitary<br>useless<br>revenge.<br>reflect on their<br>monster<br>my<br>rage<br>might have<br>cursed<br>itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Stillitano appear before.me I dwell upon My ownnarration.My father lived; butwandered lost affectionclings togrey hairs,the springs of existencegave way: to darknessmeadowsof my youth; called mesolitaryuselessrevenge.reflect on theirmonstermyragemight havecurseditself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monstermash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}