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Say Something Wonderful: Dear Students...
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. One or two tools per poem is fine, and three to five sentences is plenty for each paragraph. Upload your paragraphs- as a single document, preferably- to the appropriate dropbox folder on D2L. There were three broad categories of inquiry—although in practice they will overlap somewhat: the poem as contraption. A “machine made out of words”); the poem as a character. There were also four specific things that sophisticated-sounding re...
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Say Something Wonderful: Short Poems (Arranged by Length)
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Friday, September 12, 2014. Short Poems (Arranged by Length). I've wanted for several years to try arranging the poems in my Reading Poetry course not by period, genre, author, or form, but simply by length. Haven't gone that far yet, but I am starting this term with a week or two on poems arranged this way, starting with two-line poems and working our way up to a 13-liner, just short of a sonnet. A Sheaf of Short Poems. Vote for Nixon in '72. Ronald Johnson &#...
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Say Something Wonderful: Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass": 3 Versions
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass": 3 Versions. Here is the familiar final version, as published in 1966 and thereafter, via the Poetry Foundation. When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful. And terrible thing, needful to man as air,. Usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,. When it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,. Reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more. Which ap...
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Say Something Wonderful: Comments!
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Friday, December 07, 2007. You have no idea, folks, how much it means to me to have gotten some comments recently. Thanks for not giving up on this blog- I haven't, even if I've been a mite overwhelmed this past week / month / year. Back on the 1st I got this, from Maria Melendez- a wonderful poet whom I'm happy to have discovered recently in two venues: the Very Useful anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. A few days ago. I say this as someone who has ...
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Say Something Wonderful: Lesson Plans: Robert Hayden, Full of Grace
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Wednesday, April 13, 2005. Lesson Plans: Robert Hayden, Full of Grace. This post has been.well, not deleted, but hidden. I'm going to have some students work on the poem soon, and I don't want them to be able to crib my notes on it. Let's see what they can do without them, for a while. Wednesday, April 13, 2005. Eric, a quick Hayden story from an earlier blog post of mine:. Wednesday, April 13, 2005. Tuesday, March 09, 2010. Thursday, March 11, 2010. Arabic Poe...
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Say Something Wonderful: Poems to Know: Praise Poems
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Tuesday, April 12, 2005. Poems to Know: Praise Poems. One thing I get to do on this blog, I guess, is plump for poems that I'd love to see taught more widely in schools, at whatever level. Since I've been grinding my way this morning through Susan Stewart's essay "What Praise Poems are For" in the January, 2005 PMLA , let me make the case for praise poems as a genre, and for a couple of them in particular. Heck, I've even seen it at Target! Into the air sweatin...
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Say Something Wonderful: Course for Next Quarter
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Course for Next Quarter. ENG 466: Modern American Poetry. We'll see how it goes. Hayden and Clifton I've taught many times before; Mullen not in a decade, maybe; Mackey, never before. All advice appreciated! Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Poems to Know: Praise Poems. Where I'm From" Assignment. Arabic Poetry, Aloud and in Translation. Its been ages since I ...
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Say Something Wonderful: Noted Rather Crossly
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Sunday, September 14, 2014. I settled in to read Khaled Mattawa's Mahmoud Darwish: the Poet's Art and His Nation. The other day, but found myself frowning at two small errors in wording early on. The IDF is the Israel Defense Forces, not the "Israeli Defense Forces" (as they're named on p. 1); likewise the PLO is the Palestine Liberation Organization, not the "Palestinian" one, as the organization is repeatedly called, including in the index. Hey, everyone- Che...
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Say Something Wonderful: John Donne Paper Topic
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Writing oils the wrist." - Georgette Heyer. Tuesday, September 19, 2006. John Donne Paper Topic. Last Thursday we spent all day in ENG 220 (Reading Poetry) on two holy sonnets by Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God" and "Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay? Classrooms with live computer hook-ups! And read through the various meanings that word had by Donne's time, all of which seemed active in, and relevant to, the poem. Today, Herbert and Marvell! Tuesday, September 19, 2006. New Approach...
