Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
The Impotence of Proofreading
Posted by: annieem on: May 19, 2009
Played this in class today to a group of fairly stressed students (the term is winding down, and they have a big essay due this week).
A good day is a class of giggling adult students who couldn’t stop smiling through the peer review workshop we had after watching this:
Poem in your Pocket Day!
Posted by: annieem on: April 29, 2009
- In: literature
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Be part of “Poem in Your Pocket Day” on Thursday April 30th: Carry a poem in your pocket to hand out…
The Academy of American Poets has a webpage with links to poems to place in your pocket.
Here’s an odd mix of my favorites (from various websites):
· If the World Was Crazy/Shel Silverstein
· What Do [...]
in Just
Posted by: annieem on: March 16, 2009
[with apologies to e.e. cummings]
in Just
finals week when the campus is snow-
luscious the stressed out students
cry and heave far and wee
and tiffanyandryan come
straggling into my office with
deadgrandmother and lostthumbdrive stories and it’s
finals week
when the campus is drunk-wonderful (on thoughts of spring break)
the joy-less
professor down the hall drones at me
far and wee
and brittanyandchase come stoned to [...]
Updates: Honors Boys and Girls, Inaugural Poem
Posted by: annieem on: January 22, 2009
An update on the self-segregated Honors English classroom. The instructor asked the class to explain why they split up, girls crammed on one side of the room, the few boys spread out on the other. Here was the response he got:
“I asked the question about the room split and got two answers:
boys said there was [...]
“In Praise of Joe” by Marge Piercy
Posted by: annieem on: November 26, 2008
Another thing to be thankful for is this wonderful poem by Marge Piercy, who is very thankful for coffee. Garrison Keillor reads it, and it’s printed here.
