tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post5379330860309551246..comments2023-08-14T08:03:12.027-07:00Comments on Blue Positive: Which Would You Choose?Martha Silanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-35167068453537107432008-10-28T13:29:00.000-07:002008-10-28T13:29:00.000-07:00I use Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians," in th...I use Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians," in the comp unit on Power and Government (as a counterpoint to Machiavelli), Kumunyaaka's "My Father's Loveletters" and Crane's "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in the unit on narrative and exposition (the FRE reading experience novel is <I>Clay's Quilt</I>, which is told partially in letter format), and "The Fish" by Bishop for the unit on narrative and descriptive writing. <BR/><BR/>My favorite poems to teach in Comp are "Permanently," which breaks the ice in the first class and "Those Winter Sundays," which closes out the class.Pamela Johnson Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06637447850820805268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-1699600200387575732008-10-27T22:15:00.000-07:002008-10-27T22:15:00.000-07:00Oh, rams--what fun. I am going to check all of the...Oh, rams--what fun. I am going to check all of these links out, just as soon as I get a little shuteye and then teach my 9:30 research paper class. Espada is one of my favorites these days. I heard him read at AWP last year . . . a highlight, for sure. <BR/><BR/>Karen, good line-up. Kasdorf, Gailey, and Joseph are up high on my list.<BR/><BR/>David, what a fine coincidence. I've used those WCW poems before, but never to talk about whether they're poems and which is better. Cool!Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-73645401500569654052008-10-27T21:02:00.000-07:002008-10-27T21:02:00.000-07:00I'm starting my own poetry unit in my comp class t...I'm starting my own poetry unit in my comp class tomorrow. For what it's worth, I'm beginning with Williams's "This is Just to Say" vs. "The Red Wheelbarrow," and a discussion of A) do you think these are poems? and, if so, B) which one is "better," and why?<BR/><BR/>From there we do Emily D's underappreciated "Drowning is not so pitiful." <BR/><BR/>Next up some short lyrics by Frost, Roethke, Rbt. Hayden, and Yusef Komunyakaa.David Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448278560900184834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-30974309244454313572008-10-26T16:02:00.000-07:002008-10-26T16:02:00.000-07:00I try to think about the population of my students...I try to think about the population of my students -- in general, I like Jim Daniels, Jan Beatty, Sherry Fairchok, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Allison Joseph, Todd Davis, and Juila Kasdorf.Karen J. Weyanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04870809238605691875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-41684854460738502472008-10-26T06:50:00.000-07:002008-10-26T06:50:00.000-07:00Okay, this is so much fun. One quarter:"A Poem Ab...Okay, this is so much fun. One quarter:<BR/><BR/>"A Poem About Bluegills" by David Dodd Lee (<I> Downsides of Fish Culture</I>http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/New_Issues_Titles/Lee/Downsides/Lee_DS_Page_Poem2.html<BR/><BR/>"Death Comes to Me Again, A Girl in a Cotton Slip" Dorianne Laux<BR/>http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/laux/dl-part3.htm<BR/><BR/>"For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks"<BR/>http://planetgrenada.blogspot.com/2005/08/by-martin-espada.html<BR/><BR/>"One Art" Elizabeth Bishop<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>"Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit, Zion, Illinois" <I>We Bed Down in Water </I> <BR/>http://www.olivetcollege.edu/academics/pdf_docs/glr_07.pdf<BR/>http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180353<BR/><BR/>"Mortal Shower" Bob Hicok <I>Insomnia Diary</I><BR/><BR/>Death be Not Proud -- Donne<BR/><BR/>"3 a.m. Feeding" Ellen Bass<BR/>http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/view_text.php?text_id=1091<BR/><BR/>(Still not ideal. Let me think...)ramshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197775203594297901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-34070375546522631122008-10-26T05:27:00.000-07:002008-10-26T05:27:00.000-07:00While dodging the question just for a minute (eyes...While dodging the question just for a minute (eyes shifting wildly) I thought this might be the right time/place to mention that the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival's starting a YouTube channel with readings taped over the last 23 years. There are only teasers up so far, but much more to come (This, because I might include Martin Espada's "For the Jim Crow Restaurant..." as one of my four and he read it, but who knows it it will ever make the cut...)ramshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197775203594297901noreply@blogger.com