tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47664081522106941052024-02-18T21:14:02.214-08:00The Twirly WordThoughts on poetry teaching with children. Thoughts on being a poet. Thoughts about thinking. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-50038943937936682932014-09-19T16:16:00.004-07:002014-09-19T16:16:46.572-07:00Archive and Transition I'm archiving this blog and moving my web-ish presence to "A Twirly Life" on Wordpress. Please find me there! (http://twirlyword.wordpress.com/)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-47514905823526765682013-09-08T15:43:00.000-07:002013-09-08T15:43:22.268-07:00Rattle to Publish Children's Poetry -- Deadline September 15<i>Rattle </i>is calling for submissions for their second <i>Young Poets Anthology</i>. From their <a href="http://www.rattle.com/poetry/children/" target="_blank">website</a>,<br />
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What a fun opportunity for children to see their poems in print! Pass the word (or submit your children's poetry.)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-63876306984652660032013-09-08T14:36:00.001-07:002013-09-08T14:36:10.653-07:00"The Yellow Lane" -- September and Poets Think About War My Saturday, September 7 <a href="http://cupertino.patch.com/groups/jennifer-swanton-browns-blog/p/september-and-poets-think-about-war" target="_blank">post </a>on Cupertino Patch.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-87719483015264742942013-08-31T17:29:00.000-07:002013-08-31T17:29:07.906-07:00California Poets in the Schools -- Santa Clara CountyI've just become the Area Coordinator for <a href="http://cpits.org/" target="_blank">California Poets in the Schools</a>. I'll continue to put up ideas about teaching poetry to children on this site, but I might also sometimes post on my companion blog, <a href="http://scc-pits.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Santa Clara County Poets in the Schools</a>.<br />
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Keep checking in!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-65859358915553241482013-01-21T16:45:00.001-08:002013-01-21T17:42:05.250-08:00Inaugural Poems<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglWtabOinGJ45cJISg-WH0RzKUZGQG_mrU4x32H4sZIJ8ul6zqPmzXn9VT4SNVYm22Tudx7FMo5bCpng2C2fCzd8ukhvh2pRjrSwvSZVVUlw-QnfP5Bk6_R3F7vrcT6rQENqfpEQstS-66/s1600/swornin212way-6493b4b464d48607e629ad72bc17fe5a89e78d5d-s4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglWtabOinGJ45cJISg-WH0RzKUZGQG_mrU4x32H4sZIJ8ul6zqPmzXn9VT4SNVYm22Tudx7FMo5bCpng2C2fCzd8ukhvh2pRjrSwvSZVVUlw-QnfP5Bk6_R3F7vrcT6rQENqfpEQstS-66/s1600/swornin212way-6493b4b464d48607e629ad72bc17fe5a89e78d5d-s4.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a><br />
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There have been many poets writing about presidents, but only a few who have read poetry at POTUS inaugurations. <br />
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Here's a <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23280?utm_source=PAD%3A+Specimen+Days+%5BThe+Inauguration%5D&utm_campaign=poemaday_012113&utm_medium=socialshare" target="_blank">poem </a>by Walt Whitman "Specimen Days [The Inauguration]"<br />
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<i>March 4th</i>.—The President very quietly rode down to the Capitol in his
own carriage, by himself, on a sharp trot, about noon, either because he wish'd
to be on hand to sign bills, or to get rid of marching in line with the absurd
procession, the muslin temple of liberty and pasteboard monitor. I saw him on
his return, at three o'clock, after the performance was over. He was in his
plain two-horse barouche, and look'd very much worn and tired; the lines,
indeed, of vast responsibilities, intricate questions, and demands of life and
death, cut deeper than ever upon his dark brown face; yet all the old goodness,
tenderness, sadness, and canny shrewdness, underneath the furrows. (I never see
that man without feeling that he is one to become personally attach'd to, for
his combination of purest, heartiest tenderness, and native Western form of
manliness.) By his side sat his little boy, of ten years. There were no
soldiers, only a lot of civilians on horseback, with huge yellow scarfs over
their shoulders, riding around the carriage. (At the inauguration four years
ago, he rode down and back again surrounded by a dense mass of arm'd cavalrymen
eight deep, with drawn sabres; and there were sharpshooters station'd at every
corner on the route.) I ought to make mention of the closing levee of Saturday
night last. Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House—all
the grounds fill'd, and away out to the spacious sidewalks. I was there, as I
took a notion to go—was in the rush inside with the crowd—surged along the
passage-ways, the blue and other rooms, and through the great east room. Crowds
of country people, some very funny. Fine music from the Marine Band, off in a
side place. I saw Mr. Lincoln, drest all in black, with white kid gloves and a
claw-hammer coat, receiving, as in duty bound, shaking hands, looking very
disconsolate, and as if he would give anything to be somewhere else.<br />
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Here is an <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20540" target="_blank">article </a>about how J.F.Kennedy invited Robert Frost to read at his inauguration. There is an audio clip at the end of Frost, in his old voice, reading "The Gift Outright." Robert Frost was the first poet to read in the program of a presidential inauguration in 1961.<br />
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The land was ours before we were the land’s.</div>
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She was our land more than a hundred years</div>
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Before we were her people. She was ours</div>
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In Massachusetts, in Virginia,</div>
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But we were England’s, still colonials,</div>
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,</div>
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Possessed by what we now no more possessed.</div>
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Something we were withholding made us weak</div>
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Until we found out that it was ourselves</div>
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We were withholding from our land of living,</div>
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And forthwith found salvation in surrender.</div>
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Such as we were we gave ourselves outright</div>
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(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)</div>
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To the land vaguely realizing westward,</div>
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But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,</div>
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Such as she was, such as she would become.</div>
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Elizabeth Alexander read "Praise Song for the Day" at President Obama's first inau<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">guration. The <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20545" target="_blank">poem</a> is long, slender and passionate, like the man it honors.The link to t</span>he Poets.org site also has a vid<span style="font-size: small;">eo recording of her reading it. My favoirte parts of this poem are when Alexander describes the people of America --</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Someone is <span style="font-size: small;">stitching</span> up a hem, darning<br />a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,<br />repairing the things in need of repair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before Obama, Bill Clinton had resumed the practice of having poets at
the inauguration, with Maya Angelou, who's poem "On the Pulse of
Morning"can be read in its entirety <a href="http://poetry.eserver.org/angelou.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
Angelou speaks for trees and rocks and rivers, as well as for peoples
from all over the world who have found their way to America. At his
second inauguration, Clinton asked Arkansas poet Miller Williams to
read, and his poem "Of History And Hope" can be read <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176494" target="_blank">here</a>.
In his very first line, "We have memorized America," he associates
America with poems children have been asked to learn by heart for
centuries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I found a ready-made <span style="font-size: small;">Inaugural</span> Poe<span style="font-size: small;">m lesson <a href="http://www.teachervision.fen.com/poetry/lesson-plan/4414.html" target="_blank">plan </a>at <span style="font-size: small;">TeacherVision.com. <span style="font-size: small;">While these poems are often critically panned, <span style="font-size: small;">the general public ten<span style="font-size: small;">ds to love them. And that's what a good poet does, write and speak to her audience. Child<span style="font-size: small;">ren will respond to the familiar language and enjoy the simpler ima<span style="font-size: small;">gery. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm going to save my comments on "<span style="font-size: small;">One Today" by <span style="font-size: small;">Richard Blanco until tomorrow. But you can hear him read <span style="font-size: small;">it <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/today-richard-blanco-poem-read-barack-obama-inauguration/story?id=18274653" target="_blank">here</a>, if you like. </span></span>I find the <span style="font-size: small;">s<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">tream</span> of tweets <span style="font-size: small;">below his face dis<span style="font-size: small;">tracting, <span style="font-size: small;">but the recording is very good. If you can, listen to the poem first, don't read along. It's better that way, that's the way i<span style="font-size: small;">t was intended to be given, to be heard. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-68541372152762567052013-01-09T22:16:00.002-08:002013-01-09T22:24:25.919-08:00My Poem "Rural Cemetery" Wins Third Prize<span style="font-size: small;">What fun! I am very lucky to be participating as a judge in the Cupertino Poetry <a href="http://cupertinolibraryfoundation.org/cupertino-poetry-contest/" target="_blank">Contest</a>, sponsored by the Cupertino <a href="http://cupertino.patch.com/articles/first-poetry-contest-offered-by-city-s-poet-laureate" target="_blank">Poet Laureate</a>, David Denny. I had the honor of <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_21857976/cupertino-poet-laureate-launches-citys-first-poetry-contest" target="_blank">judging </a>over 30 poems in the Teen category (ages 13 through 17). The awards ceremony will be later in the month, and I'll post about that (and the winning teens) later in the month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today I was notified that one of my own poems (submitted in the Adult category) has been awarded Third Prize. Sally Ashton, the current Santa Clara County <a href="http://poetlaureateblog.org/" target="_blank">Poet Laureate</a>, was the Adult category judge. I wrote this particular poem, "Rural Cemetery," in 1997. It is a dream musing about an actual <span style="font-size: small;">cemetery near my mother's home in Maine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Rural Cemetery</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Why so beautiful, the
cemetery on the meadow's edge?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tucked in finally where trees
begin their walk,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">the colors good: wild
goldenrod and lichen,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">weary granite, rusty iron
spike.</span></span></div>
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humble inclination,</span></span></div>
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and of the new, along the fence.</span></span></div>
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certain now, sure to topple,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">among chaotic grass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The cemetery in question is Woodlawn Cemetery, on Birch Point Road in Wiscasset, Maine. Here's a photo of the cemetery, that I found on the (incredibly) interesting website, Find A Grave. According to a <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Wood&GSiman=1&GScid=90730&" target="_blank">search </a>on that site, the oldest graves in that little cemetery are from the 18th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm thinking I will have to ask my m<span style="font-size: small;">other or my uncle to take a new <span style="font-size: small;">photo, from the road, that <span style="font-size: small;">better shows what I can see driving by this<span style="font-size: small;"> lovely sp<span style="font-size: small;">ot. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-74603746235690141172013-01-09T16:45:00.001-08:002013-01-09T16:45:20.493-08:00Handy Words and JabberwockyA Facebook friend shared a link to <a href="http://sobadsogood.com/2012/04/29/25-words-that-simply-dont-exist-in-english/#.UO4HQU16zCl.blogger">25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English</a>. This list is full of great words that could easily kick-start a poetry or language arts lesson. Not all the words on this list are appropriate for all age groups, but all of them are magical and some are very funny. For example,<strong> Mamihlapinatapai</strong> (Yaghan), means "a look between two people that suggests an unspoken, shared desire," and <strong>Tingo</strong> (Pascuense language of Easter Island) means "to borrow objects one by one from a neighbor’s house until there is nothing left." <br />
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I've used lists of strange or made-up words in lessons before, and the poetry opportunity is when you ask kids to write poems that include the tricky new words, or, working as a group to come up with your class's own unique words. The poem best suited to a lesson like this is, of course, "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Just one stanza is enough to show your students that making up words is a very cool way to write. (Make sure you're not asking kids to compose on a computer with a spell-check program, as that takes all the fun out of it! <span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Remember that a critical part of an art lesson is to remind your students that not everything they learn in school has to have only one right answer, one correct spelling, one perfect solution</i></span>.)<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1319537" href="http://rapgenius.com/1319537/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/Did-gyre-and-gimble-in-the-wabe">Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;</a><br />
All <a class="state-accepted" data-id="63148" href="http://rapgenius.com/63148/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/Mimsy">mimsy</a> were <a class="state-accepted" data-id="1384383" href="http://rapgenius.com/1384383/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/The">the</a> <a class="state-accepted" data-id="63149" href="http://rapgenius.com/63149/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/Borogoves">borogoves,</a></span>
<span style="color: black;"><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1310273" href="http://rapgenius.com/1310273/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/And-the-mome-raths">And the mome raths</a> <a class="state-accepted" data-id="63150" href="http://rapgenius.com/63150/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky/Outgrabe">outgrabe.</a></span></div>
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This <a href="http://rapgenius.com/Lewis-carroll-jabberwocky-lyrics#note-1308140" target="_blank">link </a>will take you to a complete version of the poem, annotated with sounds and images to enchant and educate. In particular, I love Kennith William's <a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0uGqdDA3OM84AK73fe6bXk" target="_blank">reading </a>from his album <i>Parlour Poetry</i>. Make sure you click on the yellow text in the poem to see the amazing artwork that has been illustrating this poem throughout the years. My favorite is this illustration of the Tum Tum tree. <br />
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Enjoy this word play lesson! Add some English history or etymology concepts for expanded reach.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-44598682027140431932013-01-08T13:22:00.000-08:002013-08-31T17:31:55.855-07:00The Hokey Pokey and Shakespeare's Songs<span class="userContent">More in the vein of teaching kids poetry with
old and new language: this time imagine singing and dancing the Hokey
Pokey with children and then sharing this Shakespearean version of the song with them. <i>Thanks to Grammarly.com on Facebook for posting this hilarious rendition of "The Hokey Pokey."</i></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">And then perhaps
a real Shakespeare song: my favorite is "O</span> Mistress Mine" from <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20239" target="_blank">Twelfth Night</a>. Here are the lyrics.<br />
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O mistress mine, where are you roaming? </div>
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O stay and hear, your true love's coming </div>
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That can sing both high and low. </div>
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Trip no further, pretty sweeting; </div>
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting, </div>
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Ev'ry wise man's son doth know. </div>
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What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; </div>
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Present mirth hath present laughter; </div>
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What's to come is still unsure: </div>
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In delay there lies no plenty; </div>
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Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; </div>
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Youth's a stuff will not endure.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kA2zx8isk" target="_blank">Here </a>is a great version, sung to the oldest known tune, although the film cuts and other people talking over the singing are distracting. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVq6BjUho0" target="_blank">This </a>is perhaps the most authentic version I could find. Here is an excellent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfp4wS6pEmg" target="_blank">audio </a>version, with alternate more upbeat music, that might appeal to kids more than the more sober tune originally sung with the verse. And if you're really interested in giving kids different versions, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoV90Ml90Q" target="_blank">this </a>young woman's own. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGGS6psOzik" target="_blank">This </a>is the version I sang in high school. I love these four-part madrigal songs by Emma Lou Diemer, but this audio is a little scratchy and the accompaniment is terrifying. <br />
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And <span class="userContent">then, if you're still interested in poetry, not having forgotten that inspiration with all the signing and dancing, why not follow up with a
Shakespeare sonnet. Depending on the age of the children, the lesson
would revolve around dance, song, theater, poetry and silliness!</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-19088292137257626002013-01-07T17:28:00.000-08:002013-01-07T17:32:16.923-08:00High-Tech Poetry And so the work of non-poetry work begins again in 2013. <br />
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A water-cooler friend told me this morning that she met, over the winter break, a poetry editor for the Colorado School of Mines student magazine, <a href="http://highgrade.mines.edu/" target="_blank"><i>High Grade</i></a>. <i>High Grade</i> publishes art and fiction, as well as poetry. The
poetry seems typical of college-age stuff, wonderful, awful, funny,
dramatic, self-revelatory, and perfect in every way. Here's the <a href="http://highgrade.mines.edu/includes/content/editions/pdf/2012.pdf" target="_blank">PDF </a>of their 2012 issue. There's even a poem about boogers.<br />
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I was intrigued, because this is a school known for its technical education, not its liberal arts. However, their website informs me that they are very interested in the intersection of arts and sciences. In March 2012 they <a href="http://www.mines.edu/Mines-to-host-first-artistic-conference-for-science-and-technology-universities" target="_blank">hosted </a>the first artistic conference for<i> </i>science and technology universities. MIT and other "tech" schools <a href="http://highgrade.mines.edu/ArtiST/" target="_blank">also </a>have literary journals and participated in the conference.<br />
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(The idea that technically oriented people also like [and write] poetry is not foreign to me, in part because I learned much about observing the world, being a solo creator and a sentimental goose from my computer programmer dad.)<br />
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Before my conversation with my friend at work, I was thinking similar thoughts listening to KQED's Forum program during my drive to work. Michael Krasny <a href="http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301071000" target="_blank">interviewed </a>Robin Sloan today about his book <i>Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</i>. It sounds like a delightful <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374214913" target="_blank">book</a>, about the world of super geeks and magical technology, and the interview is worth listening too. But the thing that caught my ear (enough to note it in my little book at 65 mph) was the discussion about how important art and books are to folks in the high-tech industry, a concept which seemed to surprise some people.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm thinking I need to investigate how to teach poetry classes in high-tech companies around Silicon Valley. A project for the next Cupertino Poet Laureate. (Yes, I'm dreaming ahead of myself ...) Maybe I can bring<span style="font-size: small;"> employees and kids together to write poetry about technology, or just to write poetr<span style="font-size: small;">y.</span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, it seems the <span style="font-size: small;">work o<span style="font-size: small;">f poetry<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>work is <span style="font-size: small;">still possible. But, as Sting would say, "Break Over!" (Which song <i>is </i>that??)</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></h2>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-12951516430643287762013-01-05T13:16:00.000-08:002013-01-05T13:16:15.868-08:00A Simile Lesson: Balloons<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">A W. B. Yeats <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=btqftnkab&v=001ZxTRMtTNNkgZbUjZrX8KRttz478UZG4nepaCgno4Xogkxo5tNW3BDrCRe9Zv_xV-Slq2wYoT6WaikGeKeeQo0lze8R-n7SOnPbnHgHndT7g8IQwZidmB5Q%3D%3D" target="_blank">poem </a>popped up in my email Inbox this morning. Ah, Yeats! So childlike, so romantic, so earnest, so terrifying, so beautiful. So academic, so innocent! It's a short poem that employs the technique of simile in the title, to lead the reader into the poem.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #bf5300;"><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>H<span style="font-size: small;">ands, do what you<span style="font-size: small;">'re bid:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Bring the <span style="font-size: small;">balloon of the mind</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">That bellies and drags in the wind</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into its narrow shed.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>W<span style="font-size: small;">hat a delicious description of the <span style="font-size: small;">mind as an <span style="font-size: small;">unruly</span> colorful organism<span style="font-size: small;"> that must <span style="font-size: small;">be tame<span style="font-size: small;">d or disci<span style="font-size: small;">plined. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The AAP email suggests several related poems. <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19943?utm_source=PAD%3A+The+Balloon+of+the+Mind+by+W.+B.+Yeats&utm_campaign=poemaday_010513&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">One </a>is "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity" by Mary Jo Bang. (I was previously unaware of Ms. Bang, and I will follow her work more closely now. Such mysterious language!) AAP has included an audio recording of the poet reading her poem. I try to use audio in poetry lessons as much as possible, and having a recording of the poet is a plus when engaging kids, especially older ones, paradoxically, who will listen to a recording more readily than to you reading it aloud. The balloon image appears only in the title in this poem. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Another related <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15214?utm_source=PAD%3A+The+Balloon+of+the+Mind+by+W.+B.+Yeats&utm_campaign=poemaday_010513&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">poem </a>is "The Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop. (This is one of the luxuries of AAP's website -- they link you to poem after poem and that can be a delightful way to spend a distracted afternoon--.) The first stanza includes the balloon image this time, where Bishop has used it as a metaphor for fireworks. Here are the first two stanzas. AAP includes an audio of this poem, too. Lucky lucky us. This reading will give your young listeners a way to hear rhyme </span></span>rendered masterfully by a modern poet. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #bf5300;"><b>The Armadillo</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>For Robert Lowell</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>This is the time of year<br />when almost every night<br />the frail, illegal fire balloons appear.<br />Climbing the mountain height, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>rising toward a saint<br />still honored in these parts,<br />the paper chambers flush and fill with light<br />that comes and goes, like hearts.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span><br />Bishop's work is rife, filled, huge with metaphors and similes, and I
particularly love the way she likens the light coming and going to the
beating of a heart. She likens the fireworks later on to an egg, which is also like a balloon, but in a different way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I imagine this lesson beginning with actual balloons. Kids can blow them up, you can talk about breath. Or you can bring them into the classroom in a huge bouquet -- every child or student can hold one on a string, you can talk about color, buoyancy, edges between one pocket of air and another, all the associations the students have with balloons previously in their life. You can talk about motion and all the verbs that go with balloons. There is a lot to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Depending on how much time you have, read one of these three poems. Or, make it a three day lesson. Have the children write poems about balloons, or encourage them to come up with their own metaphors and similes for the mind, the eye, fireworks. The possibilities are endless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you want to incorporate <span style="font-size: small;">the science o<span style="font-size: small;">f <span style="font-size: small;">balloons or armadillos, <span style="font-size: small;">the lesson possibilities are even more endless than normally endless. Here is a <a href="http://www.arkive.org/brazilian-three-banded-armadillo/tolypeutes-tricinctus/image-G37401.html" target="_blank">li</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.arkive.org/brazilian-three-banded-armadillo/tolypeutes-tricinctus/image-G37401.html" target="_blank">nk </a>to some wonderful images of armadillo behavior.<span style="font-size: small;"> They look like balloons, sort o<span style="font-size: small;">f, except made of armo<span style="font-size: small;">r. But of course, that was part of the poet's point. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> </span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-74179740932267782032013-01-02T16:45:00.000-08:002013-01-02T16:45:20.821-08:00Using Old Poems to Find New Language<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Often I am inspired by language and new words the teenagers in my life are constantly inventing. I believe teens have been inventing the language for millennia, but Facebook and the texting culture have documented some of these evolving words earlier than <span style="font-size: small;">they </span>might otherwise enter the lexicon (or the dictionary). One of my young friends wrote today about an earring that was returned to her from "<span class="userContent">MISSINGITUDE" -- which is more likely a state of being than a location<span style="font-size: small;">, but a convincing one.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="userContent">Two of my email subscriptions, "Poem-A-Day" from the AAP, and "The Writer's Almanac" from American Public Media, recently contained poems </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: small;">with unusual words</span></span></span> </span>that inspired fresh lesson ideas<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="userContent">"The Visionary" by Emily Bront</span><span class="userContent"><span>ë</span>, <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=btqftnkab&v=001Odyl7ekdr1aJUhTEEwXTWwAbAruqBZFwh2IYUFqo3kwnuNR2I5Kg_S1X9qo6t2y-rbSq-VjbJ1qjPILLvlDTKnK6DK6zcn_XalQHuiaTERW4kLnzgDdVRA%3D%3D" target="_blank">uses </a>some wonderful sound strategies to create a sensual representation of wind and winter night. In particular, the first stanza: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #bf5300;">The Visionary </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>by
Emily Brontë</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Silent
is the house: all are laid asleep:<br />
One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep,<br />
Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze <br />
That whirls the wildering drift, and bends the </span></span></div>
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groaning trees.<br />
<br />
Cheerful is the hearth, soft the matted floor;<br />
Not one shivering gust creeps through pane or door; <br />
The little lamp burns straight, its rays shoot strong </span></span></div>
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and far:<br />
I trim it well, to be the wanderer's guiding-star.<br />
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Frown, my haughty sire! chide, my angry dame!<br />
Set your slaves to spy; threaten me with shame:<br />
But neither sire nor dame nor prying serf shall know,<br />
What angel nightly tracks that waste of frozen snow.<br />
<br />
What I love shall come like visitant of air,<br />
Safe in secret power from lurking human snare;<br />
What loves me, no word of mine shall e'er betray, <br />
Though for faith unstained my life must forfeit pay.<br />
<br />
Burn, then, little lamp; glimmer straight and clear- <br />
Hush! a rustling wing stirs, methinks, the air:<br />
He for whom I wait, thus ever comes to me; <br />
Strange Power! I trust thy might; trust thou </span></span></div>
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my constancy.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>How can one resist the "wi<span style="font-size: small;">ld</span>ering drift"? A word like this will seem "made up" to young children today, but it can be a tantalizing starting point for making up even more words that sound like the wind -- or whatever you like. Of course I am describing the craft technique of <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onomatopoeia" target="_blank">onomatopoeia</a>, or a word that sounds like the thing it describes. Emily </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Brontë</span></span></span>, in her poem about a spirit visitor at night, uses many words that evoke the hush of the snow and the sharper "<span>little
lamp; glimmer straight and clear," with those "l" "t" and "m" sounds. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>"At the Entering of the New Year" by Thomas Hardy is <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=btqftnkab&v=001Bu1v_yKrtccpSdUhZd0ggk1_wGFFy-lijmBIs_IN0ScpD5D9SXr8LJvNUXK8AMVwzfpyqdW5rTwRBfVesUw3nVBvrjhIBUahHGMBmU_TmTyHh75Nvk2ooA%3D%3D" target="_blank">written </a>in two parts, titled "Old Style" and "New Style." Both halves of this poem would seem incredibly old-fashioned to children today, but my idea for a lesson would be to select an older poem you like, read it to the children, discuss any unfamiliar language and sounds, and then ask them to write a "new" poem in response. If the "old" poem chosen for the lesson is also tied to an important event or day, as is Hardy's, it will give younger children more steady footing as they try to come up with a poem of their own. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>This poem is also filled with wonderful less familiar words: "allemands" and "poussettings" could be contrasted with any current dance terms the children know. Another discussion of how funny the words are, and whether "hip hop" is a kind of onomatopoeia, could strengthen the lesson. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #bf5300;">At the Entering of the New Year </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Thomas
Hardy</span></div>
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I (OLD STYLE)<br />
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Our songs went up and out the chimney,<br />
And roused the home-gone husbandmen;<br />
Our allemands, our heys, poussettings,<br />
Our hands-across and back again,<br />
Sent rhythmic throbbings through the casements<br />
On to the white
highway,<br />
Where nighted farers paused and muttered,<br />
"Keep it up well,
do they!"<br />
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The contrabasso's measured booming<br />
Sped at each bar to the parish bounds,<br />
To shepherds at their midnight lambings,<br />
To stealthy poachers on their rounds;<br />
And everybody caught full duly<br />
The notes of our
delight,<br />
As Time unrobed the Youth of Promise<br />
Hailed by our sanguine
sight.<br />
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II<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>(NEW STYLE)<br />
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We stand in the dusk of a pine-tree limb,<br />
As if to give ear to the muffled peal,<br />
Brought or withheld at the breeze's whim;<br />
But our truest heed is to words that steal<br />
From the mantled ghost that looms in the gray,<br />
And seems, so far as our sense can see,<br />
To feature bereaved Humanity,<br />
As it sighs to the imminent year its say:-<br />
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"O stay without, O stay without,<br />
Calm comely Youth, untasked, untired;<br />
Though stars irradiate thee about<br />
Thy entrance here is undesired.<br />
Open the gate not, mystic one;<br />
Must we avow what we
would close confine?<br />
<i>With thee, good
friend, we would have </i></div>
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converse none,</i><br />
Albeit the fault may not be thine."<br />
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<i>December 31. During the War.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>Word play is an important part of teaching <span style="font-size: small;">(and writing) poetry.<span style="font-size: small;"> Less well known poems from <span style="font-size: small;">years ago can be used <span style="font-size: small;">more </span></span></span></span>effectively when combined with an exploration of their expiring language. </span>
</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-54746140103849226622012-12-28T13:03:00.001-08:002012-12-28T13:12:38.136-08:00You Can Teach Children About WarThanks to Andrew <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/12/the-poet-in-dark-times.html" target="_blank">Sullivan</a>, I found this article about how poets should/can/must write poetry about war. <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/245104#.UN4GfDcrjKw.blogger">100 Years of Poetry: The Magazine and War by Abigail Deutsch</a>. <em>Poetry </em>has lovely editorials and essays -- this is more in the vein of a long lesson, primarily directed toward adults -- but with a little imagination, any adult lesson can be modified for children. Or for a different audience of adults. Or for you, just you, the poet in you. You the poet. You the one who wonders about how to/ if you should/ whether you must write about war. <br />
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This photo is from Andrew Sullivan's blog "The Dish," part of "The Daily Beast," which my husband reads, well, daily. I love photos of poetry manuscripts, the more crooked the handwriting on the page, the better. <br />
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I'm going to have to scan some of my student's war poems to post. There are some images available on the web, but not a lot. <br />
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I did find an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/teacher-blog/2012/oct/29/how-to-teach-war-memorials-poetry" target="_blank">article</a> from the UK, posted in <em>The Guardian</em> earlier this year, about how to teach children about war by using war memorials and writing poetry in response to them. The article was written to correspond with Remembrance Sunday in Britain, but the principal applies in the US as well, or course. A visit to any of the memorials in Washington DC, or even in your local community, can inspire a poetry lesson. <em>The Guardian</em> has an amazing <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network" target="_blank">Teacher Network</a>, in which I often find gems and inspiration. This photo is from the aforementioned article. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-59689020932088451202012-12-23T14:17:00.003-08:002012-12-23T14:20:51.490-08:00When In Doubt, Twirl (How to make a twirly dress)These photos are lovely and the whole idea is great. <a href="http://alixofbohemia.blogspot.com/2012/07/dye-hard-deadheads.html" target="_blank">Alix of Bohemia</a> has a lovely lesson.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-66348126798628750112012-12-22T14:09:00.000-08:002012-12-22T14:09:09.046-08:00Candles for EmilyOne way to introduce (otherwise disinclined) people to poetry is with art about poetry. My daughter found this installation on line. I will have to look up all the poems Emily Dickinson wrote in her <i>annus mirabilis</i> in 1862 (or '63). She wrote 366 (or 360?) poems in 365 days. I don't want to steal this artist's thunder, so read about the beautiful thing Spencer Finch has made <a href="http://www.spencerfinch.com/view/installations/37" target="_blank">here</a>.<div>
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This photo is from his website. The patterns in the wax and colors are plenty poem for me. </div>
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It's a bit of a challenge to find information about the annus mirabilis, but of course ED is <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155" target="_blank">everywhere</a>. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-44447521728988610292012-12-16T14:59:00.000-08:002012-12-16T14:59:06.868-08:00"poetry teaches us to wrestle with and simplify complexity"Not expecting to find my comfort zone in the Harvard Business Review, but <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/11/the_benefits_of_poetry_for_pro.html?utm_term=jezrin%2Cweb%2Cwebsite%2Csite%2Cdesign%2Cjohor%2Cmalaysia%2Cjoomla&utm_content=Webdesign%2CMalaysia%2CJohor&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=jezrin.com&goback=.gde_3705869_member_190453018" target="_blank">this </a>is a poetry-friendly article. I'm not sure I see how poetry helps develop emphathy, but I do know that writing poetry helps develop creativity. Does reading poetry develop creativity? I'm also not completely sure what a poetry "user" is -- although I know I am one. So I guess it can't be too bad.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-55924174339544399642012-12-16T14:32:00.003-08:002012-12-16T14:32:49.793-08:00Rethinking The Twirly WordAt last my masters thesis is completed. I have lost interest in posting my own poetry on this site. Time to think more and more and more about poems and children (perhaps children of all ages...) and how to get some work and play going on. I'm not sure yet how this will all play out, but I plan to practice speaking out with poetry and other child-like things. At 52, they say it is never too late.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-45626761099261208722010-10-29T11:56:00.000-07:002010-10-29T12:05:02.894-07:00Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares<div class="post-header"> </div> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6);font-family:";" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuy7xkAHSYCdYfTgHrF2e20_SE-1JcelaII_K2Kf51QQj64GPfAiwEt50xfgfcF8rQDR2HzwYKH8pz2gCT9LXe9V44hN9NunVvyw022Heuh7T4jgqC3mlVAlDHSRXPTCAQ9Lw02ATq3Gw/s1600/bernardes_lota_11.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuy7xkAHSYCdYfTgHrF2e20_SE-1JcelaII_K2Kf51QQj64GPfAiwEt50xfgfcF8rQDR2HzwYKH8pz2gCT9LXe9V44hN9NunVvyw022Heuh7T4jgqC3mlVAlDHSRXPTCAQ9Lw02ATq3Gw/s320/bernardes_lota_11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533544655730999906" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXS8_dcGL-TYZ2w_e8ZT5q_SU8vwmGB_mD7Uit8xA7aeyiBVTiXmucxMWVpSbivgJTqciP9gw34ykaFhY1c2oA-L1heu0dDArU2yShTUttjmYiZDDyG6MmdPZ8Tw4YQ9AusQqv6Bmy_UV/s1600/arq111_00_06.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXS8_dcGL-TYZ2w_e8ZT5q_SU8vwmGB_mD7Uit8xA7aeyiBVTiXmucxMWVpSbivgJTqciP9gw34ykaFhY1c2oA-L1heu0dDArU2yShTUttjmYiZDDyG6MmdPZ8Tw4YQ9AusQqv6Bmy_UV/s320/arq111_00_06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533544650687476162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6);font-family:";" ><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><br /></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><br /></h3><h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size:100%;">I've been reading the wonderful novel of their life together and looking on the internet for photos of them. Luckily for me I found a blog with photos of their house in Brazil. I do not read Portuguese, so I can't decipher the captions, but the photos tell the whole story of that amazing house. No wonder Bishop couldn't leave.</span></h3><a href="http://arquitetandonanet.blogspot.com/2009/11/residencia-de-lota-de-macedo-em.html">RESIDÊNCIA DE LOTA DE MACEDO EM PETROPÓLIS (RJ / BRASIL) - ARQUITETO SERGIO BERNARDES</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-21112856155774605922010-02-21T11:59:00.000-08:002010-02-21T12:07:20.046-08:00Portraits of PoetsThis is a <a href="http://www.nysocialdiary.com/node/1586119">great exhibit of photos</a>, and other artwork, of poets and friends. I especially like the ones of Anne Sexton with W.S. Merwin and of Marie Ponsot with her children. They are here. The 'double image' of Marianne Moore and Maya Angelou is also startling and beautiful. It would not reproduce here (I'm not skilled enough at HTML to arrange them side by side) so check them out at the original site.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3jKo0jMNc7QvF2G3eLXzoiANZV0YQ8jTRWTsXUCsh5n4jHE5gZJcfxmyo6zAUYvthkQaaa0EjtewxBEBDh5PcKWX5yZzvNHrj2xQzj7II1oaXp9TAIm4g0PBlcoexvGVNt9SM8NpZFm2/s1600-h/marie+ponsot+with+five+children+1957.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3jKo0jMNc7QvF2G3eLXzoiANZV0YQ8jTRWTsXUCsh5n4jHE5gZJcfxmyo6zAUYvthkQaaa0EjtewxBEBDh5PcKWX5yZzvNHrj2xQzj7II1oaXp9TAIm4g0PBlcoexvGVNt9SM8NpZFm2/s320/marie+ponsot+with+five+children+1957.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440789781969992418" border="0" /></a><br />Marie Ponsot with five of her seven children. This 1957 photograph appeared in the Queens edition of <em>The Daily News</em>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHuu3flKfrGRXxBSzJ3glr57df9WrjOnM4so0tWi4CNFTlUVbZ4lHDnpx0VN78P5HVMCBu6mR2IuzZq_cVJVyBR_MxH4zvCQMOBo_enWvPEUmTnZmrPAmmI_Zz0kbCOHkC1RbtPFrz7md/s1600-h/anne+sexton+and+w.s.+merwin+1968.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHuu3flKfrGRXxBSzJ3glr57df9WrjOnM4so0tWi4CNFTlUVbZ4lHDnpx0VN78P5HVMCBu6mR2IuzZq_cVJVyBR_MxH4zvCQMOBo_enWvPEUmTnZmrPAmmI_Zz0kbCOHkC1RbtPFrz7md/s320/anne+sexton+and+w.s.+merwin+1968.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440789786898246914" border="0" /></a><br />Anne Sexton and W.S. Merwin backstage at the 92nd Street Poetry Center on November 11, 1968. Photographed by Jill Krementz.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sexton struggled with "madness" most of her adult life, a battle beginning with </span><em style="font-style: italic;">To Bedlam and Part Way Back</em><span style="font-style: italic;"> (1960) and ending with the posthumous </span><em style="font-style: italic;">The Awful Rowing Toward God</em> (1975).<span style="font-style: italic;"> Merwin, a prolific poet and translator, now lives in Hawaii, where he has created a remarkable nature preserve and forest.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nysocialdiary.com/node/1586119">Jill Krementz Photo Journal - Portraits of Poets | New York Social Diary</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-83805895601874280472010-02-16T16:21:00.000-08:002010-02-16T16:28:12.516-08:00Green Papers for Art<div>Excellent new website I found: Americans For the Arts (<a href="http://www.americansforthearts.org/">http://www.americansforthearts.org/</a>) and they have two blogs I like. </div><div> </div><div> </div><a href="http://blog.artsusa.org/2010/02/16/green-paper-arts-in-healthcare/">Green Paper: Arts in Healthcare</a><br /><p><a href="http://blog.artsusa.org/2010/02/16/green-paper-artists%e2%80%99-residency-programs/">Green Paper: Artists’ Residency Programs</a></p><p>Read all about a nationwide effort to make sure arts education gets the attention, respect, and resources it deserves. Here's what their Facebook page says: </p><p>Arts Education is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL for the development of our children, from as early as kindergarten all the way up into higher level education.</p><p>An education in Fine Arts encourages:</p><ul><li>more developed habits of critical and creative thinking</li><li>more perseverance and dedication to a given task</li><li>better psychological and physical health</li><li>self-discipline, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills</li></ul><p>A child who participates in Fine Arts is:</p><ul><li>more likely to succeed academically</li><li>more likely to succeed socially</li><li>more able to express his or herself</li><li>inclined to be more literate than his or her peers</li></ul><p>If America's children are to be sucessful in all aspects of their life, then an education that emphasizes Fine Arts is crucial.</p><p>Support the Arts!</p><p> </p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-90540126937744864732010-02-14T13:49:00.000-08:002010-02-14T14:11:11.682-08:00Cynicism or Joy: Sallinger, Hoagland and KarrI've been reading more lately, books of course, but also magazine articles, journals, the news on the internet, in the bathroom. I must have more time on my hands, but perhaps just less anxiety in my mind. Anyway, here's an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/books/review/Brouwer-t.html">interesting reveiw </a>in the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times </span>about Tony Hoagland's poems, his new book, and his approach to cynicism and romance. This is my favorite quote:<br /><br />'<span style="font-style: italic;">At his best, Hoagland rejects both the cynic’s lie that everything superficially beautiful must be rotten underneath, and the romantic’s lie that everything apparently ugly must possess some essential nobility.</span>'<br /><br />I was also <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/28/the-catcher-in-the-rye-author-j-d-salinger-dies-at-91/#">reading an obit </a>for J.D. Salinger in <span style="font-style: italic;">Rolling Stone </span>this week, where these same themes of romanticism, cynicism, mockery, etc. were in focus. Here's what I took away:<br /><br />'<span style="font-style: italic;">One reason Holden finds phonies everywhere, Salinger ever-so-quietly insinuates, is that he's unable to find pleasure anywhere.</span>'<br /><br />Wow - that stopped me cold. That a cynic might be a person who has given up on pleasure?<br /><br />And what about this, which I found in the bowels of Mary Karr's <span style="font-style: italic;">Lit</span>, when she's discussing the differences between happiness and joy:<br /><br />'<span style="font-style: italic;">Never have I felt such blazing focus for another living creature. I can't stop looking at him. Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self--delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.</span>'<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEmF64junqbSO6KOcogKxWzG3Fdf-bwwUow5xAgRBF6ZI2bo7PVvzHZSgikw6AzWGNEeqT1kq90oWUiZ3DotuSJXxPZoBqhFGDxsiJ-Q7VwZ1Zog7a1pZkK1ySe7aL39T1XW15rcEO9I4/s1600-h/cyclamen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEmF64junqbSO6KOcogKxWzG3Fdf-bwwUow5xAgRBF6ZI2bo7PVvzHZSgikw6AzWGNEeqT1kq90oWUiZ3DotuSJXxPZoBqhFGDxsiJ-Q7VwZ1Zog7a1pZkK1ySe7aL39T1XW15rcEO9I4/s320/cyclamen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438224914267887842" border="0" /></a><br />Karr is talking about the moments after giving birth to her son. I remember that feeling. I also know something about self loathing, self importance, self pity, giving up on romanticism, fear of cynics, and a lot of other stuff. Today, Bob bought me flowers, beautiful pink blooming cyclamen from the Farmers' Market. There was a day when I would have felt gyped because they weren't cut flowers, what a real romantic husband would give his wife, but today I felt joy joy joy -- unexpected and welcome. And now I have to wash his underwear while he pays the bills. Joy joy joy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-7285223618524303222010-02-04T14:37:00.001-08:002010-02-04T14:47:13.834-08:00Funny Poets Dot ComA <a href="http://www.funnypoets.com/">website </a>with list upon list of funny poems. Even some rude limericks, for those of us who love them and can never remember them. Anyone can submit a poem to the site.<br /><br />Here's a wonderful one. I may have to take these words to my poet kids during class. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eschewing Obfuscation</span></span><br /> </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >The raison d'etre of this dissertation is an etude in eschewing obfuscation.</span><br /> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >Each day, with cyclicality quotidian,<br /> Ante- if you wish, or post-meridian,<br /> Make a time for self-examination<br /> For floccinaucinihilipilification.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >And if encountered in this introspection,<br /> Expunge it! Hurl it forth in firm rejection.<br /> For surely there's a modicum of worth<br /> In everything God put upon the earth.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >Ex nihilo, for certain, nihil fit<br /> So take a chance, and see what comes of it.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >(The raison d'etre of this dissertation<br /> Is an etude in eschewing obfuscation,<br /> For hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian<br /> Words to me, are obviously alien.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-size:85%;" >Copyright; </span></strong></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-size:85%;" >Tad Lawson<br /> </span></strong></span></strong></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" >Email: tagady@aol.com</span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-3157852185344297422010-01-29T10:21:00.000-08:002010-01-29T10:24:01.434-08:00Leaf Poems<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCHnEtQanFU5HUZVJPG9teSXXhBWWEVQlFfKWTSIsVZhPCWTI3aSBoybQ4cFaRCgMfGpCxWhB2YrVFGqL_SCo9dfyhd132gMmRtxi3Htat-eFlfVHcKDfLvDbPoZwj8ULqhCzMfKr7Yhq/s1600-h/04tree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCHnEtQanFU5HUZVJPG9teSXXhBWWEVQlFfKWTSIsVZhPCWTI3aSBoybQ4cFaRCgMfGpCxWhB2YrVFGqL_SCo9dfyhd132gMmRtxi3Htat-eFlfVHcKDfLvDbPoZwj8ULqhCzMfKr7Yhq/s320/04tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432229000092754626" border="0" /></a>Oh my gosh these are so poems! My favorites are the Wireless Ginkgo tree and the Swiss-Army Knife tree. Thanks for <a href="http://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/01/natural-brillance.html">Accidental Mysteries</a>, again, for found poetry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-19409300414574316452010-01-19T17:11:00.000-08:002010-01-19T17:32:45.943-08:00WITS, CPITS, and Ode to the Color BlackI was searching the web for poems to use as examples tomorrow while teaching my Regnart GATE students about odes. I found <a href="http://witsblog.org/">this great site</a>, called WITS: Writers in the Schools. I love the site, so clean and easy to see all the poems, and great art and photos as well. I'm so happy I found this. There are also some great ode poems about things like turtles and the color black. I'm grateful to these teachers and to their students. I can't tell if they are a national organization, or Texas?? I also really like how the post photos from flickr and document that on the site. Wow, I just am in love with them today.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1VdkBi3eKEabufBFHVgoJ-DR5IFlPeIh6q3nEPuLlg0_1RFSZQP96QSa17SSNyXWGetZpn7cFwhjILPstEtAXJugHqw_ih-Nv7P3BZe8tGdWvm13zyka16KK4lVhJL7vjaiNRQw_5yZpa/s1600-h/lat-erothko-black.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1VdkBi3eKEabufBFHVgoJ-DR5IFlPeIh6q3nEPuLlg0_1RFSZQP96QSa17SSNyXWGetZpn7cFwhjILPstEtAXJugHqw_ih-Nv7P3BZe8tGdWvm13zyka16KK4lVhJL7vjaiNRQw_5yZpa/s320/lat-erothko-black.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428628301532879170" border="0" /></a><br />Here is my favorite <a href="http://witsblog.org/2008/10/16/ode-to-the-color-black/">poem from their site</a>:<br /><br />Ode to the Color Black<br /><br />In darkness,<br />beauty ebony<br />rises,<br />envelops all. Cold,<br />warm nothing.<br />Infinite pools<br />holding<br />infinite thoughts, deep<br />and hidden. Blackness<br />is the only one<br />with the power to<br />hold memories, to<br />induce forgetfulness.<br /><br />Every person<br />has<br />two caches of<br />blackness. They are<br />your eyes. You see<br />with black<br />holes, pools, wells<br />of meaning,<br />meaninglessness.<br />Black means<br />print on paper,<br />pupils,<br />emptiness,<br />nothing. But black<br />has turned bitter. The world<br />believes black<br />is a<br />horrible color.<br />Black hearts<br />are full of cruelty.<br />Black cats<br />bring bad luck.<br />But black<br />is beautiful. Black<br />is eternal.<br /><br />by Maya, 7th grade<br /><br />[painting by Mark Rothko]<br /><br />(c) Writers in the Schools 2007-2010.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-67144883966971782772010-01-08T16:38:00.001-08:002010-01-08T17:31:45.430-08:00Welsh poet at Stanford: Small languages make a big difference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykKc6A1VfdjdF-brLeZyo-4fGlBPejiZN6dZ23DzSeqOVvsJnGyQMnv43PcK9rOfrDg0eQJmeGt-Ft3T4GIWlGly18cyLC61tGwY5mBlhNPcUH5Kz3WpZGdsvQVc6cOKujili__5N0XJP/s1600-h/lewis_news.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykKc6A1VfdjdF-brLeZyo-4fGlBPejiZN6dZ23DzSeqOVvsJnGyQMnv43PcK9rOfrDg0eQJmeGt-Ft3T4GIWlGly18cyLC61tGwY5mBlhNPcUH5Kz3WpZGdsvQVc6cOKujili__5N0XJP/s320/lewis_news.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424546357796876962" /></a><br /><a href=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january4/videos/675.html>Welsh poet at Stanford: Small languages make a big difference</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a><br /><br />And, here's one of her poems. I love this, love this. The recorded interview on YouTube has her reading her poems in Welsh, and the printed interview provides another poem in English. I'm in love. Makes me want to go home and write.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766408152210694105.post-43053214044877994862010-01-01T12:30:00.000-08:002010-01-01T12:31:28.403-08:00Happy New YearI'm going to open up this blog to the public in this new year. Then I'm going swimming.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0