Ode to This Body Singing: Teaching Yusef Komunyakaa's "Anodyne," Aracelis Girmay, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess
At first, students often giggle to study themselves while they're in the classroom, but I find that they eventually become very interested.
Ode to This Body Singing: Teaching Yusef Komunyakaa's "Anodyne," Aracelis Girmay, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess As I began to read more and write more, I felt that finding one voice was not going to be sufficient for the kind of writing life I wanted. I've come to think that the real task is about finding the voice that is right for the character, poem, story, or what have you—which might mean being able to find not one, but many voices.
Finding Your Voices: How Jericho Brown, Diana Ross, and Janis Joplin Can Inspire Student Writing, Tiphanie Yanique, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess Here is where I emphasize my definition of a poem as "words arranged in space that the poet says is a poem." Since poetry is a most flexible form, I stress the importance of intention. The poem becomes a poem because it is no longer intended to be a letter. "Can anything be a poem, then?" someone always calls out. "Yes!" someone else always responds. "If you say so!"
History and All Its Bright Particulars: Letter Writing and Poetry, Tina Cane, in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry, Edited by Matthew Burgess He seemed to sense that this final transition he was going through was at once natural and somewhat spiritual. "The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost," he wrote his friend the queen mother of Belgium. "One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone."
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson Concerned, Einstein decided to accompany—or chaperone—Gödel on his visit to Trenton to take the citizenship test, which was to be administered by the same judge who had done so for Einstein. On the drive, he and a third friend tried to distract Gödel and dissuade him from mentioning this perceived flaw, but to no avail. When the judge asked him about the Constitution, Gödel launched into his proof that its internal inconsistency made a dictatorship possible. Fortunately, the judge, who by now cherished his connection to Einstein, cut Gödel off. "You needn't go into all that," he said, and Gödel's citizenship was saved.
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