Subject: Re: Portfolios
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 14:38:53 EDT
--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> heh...nothing's wrong with poetry. :) I read it too too much. Just FAR
> MORE people write it than can write it. Reading bad poetry is like
> listening to knock knock jokes by a four year old. It goes on forever
> and never gets any better...
Ah, but sometimes it's good. Damn good. The trouble is, almost nobody
reads poetry anymore, and even fewer people publish it. Everyone,
however, appears to write it.
Billy Collins, the United States poet laureate, is sponsoring an
organization which is trying to bring modern poetry back to schools. To
this end, they've put together a website called Poetry 180. The idea is
that you can read a poem a day with your class.
You can access the poems through this page:
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
Do yourself a favor and click on "The Blue Bowl" by Jane Kenyon.
Regards,
Cecilia.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th!
http://shopping.yahoo.com
-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Fri Sep 27 2002 - 17:14:13 EDT