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Articles, Poetry, U-turns, Writing
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Let’s Write in Music One
Music and poetry fit together like a hand in a well fitting glove. The words of music most often are poetry. Lyrics may not be deeply sublime but they have rhythm and they use the sounds of the language. That … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Poetry Lesson
Tagged article, poetry lesson, rhythm, Teaching, writing to music
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Presenting a Lesson on Empathy to Graduate Students
Recently Helen Shoemaker and I were asked to present a poetry lesson from our book, Leaping Off into Space: A Travel Guide to Risk and the Imagination. The setting was a class on language arts for graduate students in education. … Continue reading
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Tagged article, Edward Hopper, Imagination, poetry lesson, writing lesson, Writing Poetry
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Another piece of suspenseful ants
This is no longer holiday suspense. Christmas and New Years have both gone. What passes for normal is now here. Except Christmas refuses to leave the house just yet. The nerve of that tree just sitting there refusing to leave, … Continue reading