You Are Not You: A Workshop on Ekphrastic Persona and Repetition, Joanna Fuhrman, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess
At its most rewarding, writing poetry provides a way of connecting to something larger, grander than the self; it allows one to experience the glimmering, messy fragments of the self in the gestures and dreams of others.
You Are Not You: A Workshop on Ekphrastic Persona and Repetition, Joanna Fuhrman, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess What catches your eye? I ask, reminding them that we are trying to focus on the details rather than the big picture. Pick one detail and describe it as well as you can, I say.
The Lune Link: Illuminating Classroom Content with Flashes of Poetry, Susan Karwoska, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess That's what poetry can do for us. It puts us in someone else's shoes, or driving with them in a car, or sitting in the same classroom, or even looking up at the sky that we all of us share, even though we sometimes seem to forget it.
"Love is a Big Blue Cadillac: Using Metaphor to Explore Concrete and Abstract Nouns II, Peter Markus, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess The list goes on and on. The images and the possibilities here are endless. Students need to be reminded of this. Where else but in a poem can we offer our students such a glorious option?
"Love is a Big Blue Cadillac: Using Metaphor to Explore Concrete and Abstract Nouns I, Peter Markus, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess I have come to understand that part of training as a writer at any level is to (re)acquaint yourself with the resilience of English and your own resourcefulness, which are mutually productive as it turns out.
Beyond Imitation: Reverse Engineering the Lyric Poem, Brian Blanchfield, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess |
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