P. K. Page: 1916-2010
In 2005, my high school in Canada invited me to give a poetry workshop and reading. After the workshop, the instructor who’d invited me—one talented Mr. Terence Young—took me along on a social call to...
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Celebrating Poetry in Black History Month
Terrence Hayes reads at Cornell University, April 15, 2009 With the arrival of February comes the celebration of Black History month in the United States and—on this blog at least—a recognition of the...
View ArticlePoet of the Month: Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Audre Lorde, born on February 18th, 1934, was just as admirable for her activism as for her poetry. Indeed for Lorde the two were inextricably connected. A native New Yorker born to Grenadian parents,...
View ArticlePoetry, Proliferating
Last month, David Alpaugh wrote an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education called “The New Math of Poetry.” In it he describes the explosion of poetry publishing, particularly online, and what it...
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Free Poetry Culture: LibriVox Edition
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Yale Open Courses, and this week I’d like to highlight another great free audio resource online—LibriVox. A sort of audio version of Project Gutenberg, LibriVox...
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Poet of the Month: William Wordsworth
For Poetry Month, we chose an old favorite for poet of the month: William Wordsworth. Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 –April 23, 1850) is one of the most important English Romantic poets. Critics consider...
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Beautiful Imagination: Reading and Writing Alongside Cornelius Eady
For the students in my first-year writing course, contemporary poetry was a revelation. After all, Cornelius Eady’s “Brutal Imagination” tells the story of an event that most students are too young to...
View ArticleGen Ed Poetry: Finding a Real Toad or Two
It’s poetry time in my Writing about Literature class, so I’ve been considering yet again how to approach talking about something a majority of my students dread. I think back to my own experiences...
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Using Pop Culture to Hook Students on Poetry
National Poetry Month is still a few weeks off, but I feel like talking poetry. Recently, Holly Pappas asked about strategies for discussing poetry with general education students. The answer I’ve...
View ArticleDo your students write poetry in, and out of, class?
As I’ve said before, my sister teaches high school in Florida—history and psychology, with a lot of writing in all her classes (she says she’s “notorious” not just for assigning writing but for...
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