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...schools and publishes books about teaching writing. "Writing exercises help the child focus on the writing task and let the feelings and ideas flow." Shapiro suggests, for example, an exercise based on Kenneth Koch's book Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry. Have kids start a poem that begins "I used to/but now." The very act of writing may help children formulate some of their questions and give them a feeling that they have an outlet for their fears...
Shortly after the speakout began at 12:15 p.m., Lara Z. Jirmanus ’01 read a poem written by a Palestinian living in New York, coping with the discrimination toward Palestinians that has followed the terrorist attacks...
Alyssa T. Saunders ’04 submitted a poem from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s Another America. Saunders said she chose the poem because she wanted to share its message of unity. “It promotes the idea that we are one community,” she said...
...subject matter Murray peruses is incredible, but despite the number of topics the collection fits perfectly as a medley of puzzle pieces. Although it is his first published work after his illness, Murray reflects only briefly, but thoughtfully, on his own experience of unconsciousness and reawakening. One such poem, “A Reticence,” combines the description of an autumn landscape with the regret of missing a day of such beautiful existence, “and I sobbed because I’d missed that day / my entire lovely...
...group is safe from Murray’s scrutiny. He attacks the press, the white middle class, literary editors and many others. Whites especially come under repeated heat for historical and present conduct. An especially illustrative poem is “The Great Hall of Chlorine” which describes a pool spa where the white middle class gathers. Together they eye a non-white family who enters, “this is Race” with a capital letter. One of the most powerful poems in the collection is “At the Swamping of Categories...