Wild Thing: Love Poems and Self-Portraits Inspired by Donika Kelly's Bestiary, Melissa Febos, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess
Finally, I gave the students a choice: love poem or self-portrait.
Wild Thing: Love Poems and Self-Portraits Inspired by Donika Kelly's Bestiary, Melissa Febos, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess I choose the word "experiment" over "exercise" because I want to focus on the excitement of risk-taking—the unknowingness that can occur in poem-making.
Undressing Advertisements: Poetry as Feminist Critique through Harryette Mullen's Trimmings, Jennifer Firestone, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess Perhaps what strikes me about postcards—as a writer, artist, and poetry comics maker—is that they are a vehicle by which, universally, people share words and pictures with one another. Like published poetry, they go off into the world to be read (maybe by the mailperson), the text interpreted and image absorbed, the gift given with no requirement of response beyond the act of receiving.
Wish You Were Here: Using Postcards to Inspire Poetry, Bianca Stone, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess As a poetry teacher—at one point more to younger students and now mostly with adults—I feel my job is to teach all poets that the voices that long to speak through them are accessible as outside forces, and to write poems all they must do is ask them questions.
The Poem as Divination Tool: The Tarot Card Exercise, Dorothea Lasky, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess Encourage students to compare themselves to birds both in terms of their physical selves and their personalities; students will often want to focus on the physical—nudge them to go deeper. Writing, after all, should be a kind of revelation.
If I Was a Bird: A Lesson in Self-Definition, Amina Henry, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess |
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