We will share most of our work in a Google+ Community. We can upload images, respond to each other’s ideas, and share links and artifacts here.
Course calendar can be found above and HERE.
Sorry my brain is not on a creative level right now… Lol I am reading Brown Girl Dreaming and my initial thought was “WTF is going on”– so yes I was a little confused. The poems are each their own individual story, and I didn’t know this at first. I kept trying to link the …
For my verse book I read Inside Out & Back Again and I am so glad that I did. This book was about a young girl, Ha, who had to go through the experience of leaving her home and everything familiar in Saigon to her and move to a whole new place, America, during the …
These last couple of weeks I have been tackling a project for class that is traditionally one of the most difficult things for me: reading poetry. Now, last year in Spring I took a course that I thought was going to be the most miserable few hours of my life every week. I took a …
Write about your verse book (Monster, The Crossover, Inside Out & Back Again, Enchanted Air, OR Brown Girl Dreaming). What are your initial thoughts about the book? What was it like reading a text that plays with form and structure? Did the form change how you read the text? How might you use these books …