Welcome!

I just wanted to remind everyone to do last weeks readings along with the pages for next Tuesday... they're not that bad, I promise.

Also, thinking about why we write poetry and how we should approach it when first introduced...

Here's some advice from pg. 42 of Michael Meyer's book:


Introduction to Poetry


I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins (1941)

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-Sophia