Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. – Aristotle
A while back I received the following invitation:
“A Panacea of Poetry East Central is having a poetry contest! It will be positively poetic and panoptic!
The first phase we undertook in Grades 9 and 10 was to explore Ladders to the Dark. The first poem was published, April 21, 2009. And today 38 students have written [...]
How tough is it to create the slick political attack ads that flood the airwaves during an election?
Well, not so tough.
I stumbled onto a site that generates attack ads as fast as refrigerator magnetic poetry.
http://attackadgenerator.com/
I’m sure ten minutes is all you’ll need to create an ad that rivals any real attack ad.
Post a link to [...]
Assume that it will be necessary to read a poem more than once. Give yourself a chance to become familiar with what the poem has to offer. Like a peace of music, a poem becomes more pleasurable with each encounter.
Do pay attention to the title; it will often provide a helpful context for [...]
Blog an online research about a song that relates to Heather’s workshop(s) about:
Bullying
Domestic Violence
Peace
Getting Along
Requirements:
Lyrics, portions cut’pasted with hyperlink to source.
250-words:
What is going on in the song?
What is the message the artist is trying to send?
How do you feel about this message?
How does it focus on the workshop topics?
3. Composer, performer, dates, album art, awards.
4. [...]
Write as quickly as you can and as much as you can using the following list of 4 words in addition to a few spontaneously selected words.
Rage
Order
Justice
Common
Pollute
Addiction
Challenge
Fantastic
Binder
Then remove the listed words from your writing and leave a set of () behind.
Next to each listed word add an “==>”
Idea==>Image
Shut your eyes, think about a word from [...]
Write a ten-line poem. Find a proverb, adage, familiar phrase, or brainy quote that you have changed in some way as well as five of the following words: cliff, blackberry, needle, cloud, voice, mother, whir, lick.
You have ten minutes.
No rhyming.
P.S.
We will be practising poetry posting permanently. Please create categories in your sidebars to begin sorting [...]
Turn off moderation from your Dashboard==>Options ==>Discussion.
Begin your post with the first line of a poem. Now you go to someone else’s blog and comment the next line. (Meanwhile your post will collect lines for your poem.)
Try to post one line on everyone’s blog.
When you commented on all posts go back to your post [...]
