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Wanda O'Connor: Where are the lids? The lids to everything?
Gold’s vision is a collection of the predictable, the underworried, configurations of the city and the body, the chase of idea. He is a philosopher of place, identifying himself through incarnation with the objects themselves, happiest just to enter.
Apr 27, 2010, 14:32
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Vince Tinguely: The Arcane Beast
Poetry readings are an arcane beast ... often drawing quite small audiences, rarely garnering much publicity beyond a blurb in the back page listings of the local papers, yet they serve the crucial role of breathing life back into the form.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Patti McCurdy: ESL Through Poetry
I prepare my class by focusing on poetry in general. We study poems, analyze poetry techniques and forms, write poems… we do scrapbooks, poetry slams, we write lyrics.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Mary Eva: Why Bringing Poets into the Classroom Matters
According to Mary, kids like to listen to authors read from their books – especially when the writer offers insight into the process. They like to know, for example, where the idea for a story or poem came from.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Alenka & Jason Blake: A World Apart? Bringing Poetry into Slovenian Classrooms
Many students complain to us that their Slovenian literature classes murdered any desire to read. We take these complaints with a grain of salt because we assume that these young people are exaggerating and because, as teachers, we cannot fathom any educator wielding such power.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Ron Rower: What Makes a Poem a Poem?
We feel dull if we don’t get a joke immediately, but, as already noted, the flash of insight into a poem is unlikely to arrive quickly. So reading a poem is ideally an activity of leisure.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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David Solway: The Sonnet as Mathematical Object
Considered mathematically, in consolidating a ratio of 6 to 4½, it mimes exactly the relation of octave to sestet, or 8 to 6, of the staple Petrarchan sonnet. (Actually, looked at in reverse, the ratio is .750 to 1, relatively close to the Fibonacci number.)
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Kathy Leney: A ‘Delicious’ Hour
Leney believes that children can be turned on to poetry in a variety of ways— by reading aloud to them, by sharing the books in her personal poetry collection with them, and even by acting them out.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Mohamed Siad Togane: A Moslem Missive to a Jewish Friend
I say, Israel farts in the face of the Lord and in the face of the whole world all the time by rubbing it in raw and gloating and hectoring gracelessly thus: we want the Arabs and the Palestinians and the Moslems to know that they are a defeated people; we want them to feel defeat, disgrace, dishonour, degradation, humiliation in the marrow of their bones; we want them to eat bilious bitterness and rancid resentment for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner every day of their lousy lives!
Jan 25, 2010, 22:27
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Antonio D'Alfonso: Tableau [ ] Tableau
Inevitably movement in film comes to an end; but movement is the essence of a poem. It is not words that are poetic, but the movement created by the combination of words. In other words, a poem is, like film, dependent on the amalgam of units in order to rise to the status of poetry.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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