{"id":1237,"date":"2014-03-21T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2014-03-21T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:44:59","slug":"world-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/21\/world-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello all!<\/p>\n

Today is World Poetry Day, <\/a>and pretty soon I’m headed to hear some at the Breakwater Reading Series<\/a>.\u00a0 So come join us, or at least put a poem in your pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some links from around the web on this sunny Friday:<\/p>\n

“Sestina”<\/a> was the first Elizabeth Bishop poem I ever read.<\/p>\n

I find this funny every time: Keats’ “To Mrs. Reynold’s Cat.”<\/a><\/p>\n

A student shared this with me: the shape of stories,<\/a> according to Kurt Vonnegut.\u00a0 (My student showed me ‘before’ and ‘after’ shapes of his story for class, pre and post revisions.\u00a0 Love that.)<\/p>\n

Speaking of students, here are some poems my EN202 writers read last year:<\/p>\n

Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to Salt.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood’s “Variation(s) on the Word Sleep.”<\/a>\u00a0 Some students found this creepy, but others thought it beautiful.<\/p>\n

“Father”<\/a> by Ted Kooser.<\/p>\n

And, because it’s fun to see what the kids are reading these days, here are some poems that those same students shared with me:<\/em><\/p>\n

“someone should write me a love poem<\/a> but I’m stuck doing it myself” by Daphne Gottlieb.\u00a0 Yes. My thoughts exactly.<\/p>\n

“Annabel Lee”<\/a> by Edgar Allen Poe.<\/p>\n

“Dinner Guest: Me”<\/a> by Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n

They have pretty good taste, right?\u00a0 Happy Friday, and feel free to post a link to a poem below!<\/p>\n

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