I loved the poems that you shared and the insights you had about what makes a good poem.
Homework: Animoto intro: due Sept. 21
On day 4s, post a poem to our edmodo account. The code is in your email boxes.
Fighting "mortgage brain".
How will you allow yourself time to nourish your creative side?
Ideas:
Visit poetry sites such as the ones listed on the board today. Sign up for an e-newsletter from one of the literary magazines such as Geist or Arc or The Malahat Review. Start a RSS feed to your google reader. Use a subject that interests you: teenage poetry, Canadian poetry, Margaret Atwood, Patrick Lane, guardian poetry, etc. Go to Planet Earth Poetry at the Moka House on Hillside every Friday night at 7:30. Sit in the back and write as you listen. Write daily. Read daily.
Today, you wrote a list using sensory, concrete details and I gave each of you a random title. For those students who had to leave early, choose one of the titles below and stick it onto your list. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense to you. It will make sense to the reader. Type up your list and bring it to class tomorrow to share. We're working here with this idea: how titles hold poems together.
Optional titles:
Nothing in a Day Goes By
A Poem for a Thousand Years
Morning in Canada
Outside This Window
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thanks again for arriving to class on time. By doing so you are giving yourself the attention you need in order to make time for your wonderful writing.
See you soon.
