a #NationalPoetryMonth Day dose of @dogtrax and students for today’s excellent #NPM19 digital #poetrybombing (just to say)
Today we turned to William Carlos Williams for inspiration. Using the book A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, I introduced my students to William Carlos Williams. I wanted to continue the focus on the ordinary as well as show a poet who continued his writing while working as a doctor. I’ve been working to dispel the myth that poetry has to rhyme…and this book definitely helped make that point!
Once we learned a bit about Williams, we studied two of his poems to use as mentor texts for our own poems. The Red Wheelbarrow surprised my students. It seemed so short and so simple at first glance…and then they started to notice. The word glazed really caught their attention…and made them think of doughnuts rather than rain coated wheelbarrows. Then we started to play around with how to put our own content…
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Yes, indeed NPM — We are trying in our own small way to advance creativity . . . .
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/a-world-is-right-when-we-learn-to-preserve-and-embrace-the-word-like-a-poet/
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PS already recycled on social media, https://www.facebook.com/precariousfacultynetwork/posts/2129126520541967, plus an auto-spin around the Twitiverse…
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