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Why Poetry Matters: Words Matter: the Day of Silence
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Thursday, April 10, 2014. Words Matter: the Day of Silence. Today is GLSEN Day of Silence. April 11th, 2014. Open a new window to TodaysMeet.com/DayofSilenceEA. Or just click here. Review what I wrote first - start at the bottom - or read the transcript. Screenshot from TodaysMeet.com transcript. In light of yesterday (Wednesday's) violence. At Franklin Regional High School. I want to bring some awareness to the power of. Words - and the pain of bullying. Plus the power of connection and compassion.
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Why Poetry Matters: July 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014. Mad Men and Frank O'Hara. Meditations in an Emergency. TO WATCH THE VIDEO CLIP from MAD MEN. BBC - Culture - Frank O’Hara: Poet of the Mad Men Era. Now I am quietly waiting for. The catastrophe of my personality. To seem beautiful again,. And interesting, and modern. The country is grey and. Brown and white in trees,. Snows and skies of laughter. Always diminishing, less funny. Not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of. The year, what does he think of. A volley...
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Why Poetry Matters: October 2014
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Saturday, October 4, 2014. 101 Great American Poems. Below is a list of poems from our $3 anthology. I appreciate the chronological order of poets and the relative diversity of voices. When class time is precious, how do we hit 101 poems between now and the end of the year. Does a poem a day work? Is that possible too tedious? 1672) " To My Dear and Loving Husband. 1784) From " To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 101 Great American Poems. Jay Parini writes that.
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Why Poetry Matters: A Poetic Reflection to the Day of Silence
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Friday, April 17, 2015. A Poetic Reflection to the Day of Silence. After the Day of Silence lesson. 1 WRITE A POEM - no minimum - no maximum - no word count - no required form. Only requirement: Be thoughtful. 3 Plus PRINT a HARD COPY for Monday. After Friday's class - Day of Silence: Watch and Listen as your Lesson Today. I would like you to respond in verse. WRITE a thoughtful POEM. That incorporates words, thoughts, ideas from the videos from FRIDAY. Kids Can Be Cruel". They were wrong.".
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Why Poetry Matters: Seamus Heaney's "The Bookcase"
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Seamus Heaney's "The Bookcase". Planned to silkiness,. Mitred, much eyed-along, each vellum-pale. Board in the bookcase held and never sagged. Virtue went forth from its very shipshapeness. Whoever remembers the rough blue paper bags. Loose sugar was once sold in might remember. The jacket of (was it Oliver and Boyd’s? Collected Hugh MacDiarmid. And the skimmed milk. Bluey-white of the Chatto Selected. Elizabeth Bishop. Murex of Macmillan’s. Heavy as the gate I hung on once.
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Why Poetry Matters: Crediting Poetry by Seamus Heaney
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Crediting Poetry by Seamus Heaney. Every now and then, usually in the spring, I listen to Seamus Heaney. If you are interested in poetry, you must listen to Heaney's Noble Lecture for Literature, "Crediting Poetry" recorded in 1995. And l isten to the audio. Think where man's glory most begins and ends,. And say my glory was I had such friends. The bees build in the crevices. Of loosening masonry, and there. The mother birds bring grubs and flies. My wall is loosening; honey-bees,.
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Why Poetry Matters: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Seamus Heaney's "The Bookcase". Planned to silkiness,. Mitred, much eyed-along, each vellum-pale. Board in the bookcase held and never sagged. Virtue went forth from its very shipshapeness. Whoever remembers the rough blue paper bags. Loose sugar was once sold in might remember. The jacket of (was it Oliver and Boyd’s? Collected Hugh MacDiarmid. And the skimmed milk. Bluey-white of the Chatto Selected. Elizabeth Bishop. Murex of Macmillan’s. Heavy as the gate I hung on once.
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Why Poetry Matters: Adam Gottlieb, "Poet Breathe Now"
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Adam Gottlieb, "Poet Breathe Now". Everybody’s got something to say about poetry. Because rhymes peak in meaning shedding light on our unspeakables. For an ample example. Take the other day when i sat not knowing how to write a poem. And assuming I was fruitlessly booming the thin air. I yelled and spat my frustration:. How do I start? And my dog looks up from her water dish and says. 8220;I hate to encroach on your ‘artistic space’. And then my dog says. Keepin time to the heartb...
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Why Poetry Matters: August 2014
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Saturday, August 30, 2014. Elizabeth Alexander on Lucille Clifton. Notes from Alexander's 2012 Blarney Lecture. Published on Aug 21, 2014. Elizabeth Alexander delivers the 2012 Blaney Lecture. At Poets Forum presented by the Academy of American Poets. Alexander's New Yorker article. Remembering Lucille Clifton" Feb. 17, 2010. Elizabeth Alexander spoke at President Obamas first inauguration. In the Blarney Lecture, according to Alexander, Clifton believed:. To be human is to tell the truth,. In the meanti...
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