Where I'm From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher “Where I'm From” grew out of my response to a poem from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet (Orchard Books, 1989; Theater Communications Group, 1991) by my friend, Tennessee writer Jo Carson. All of the People Pieces, as Jo calls them, are based on things folks actually said, and number 22 begins, “I want to know when you get to be from a place. ” Jo's speaker, one of those people “that doesn't have roots like trees, ” tells us “I am from Interstate 40” and “I am from the work my father did. ” In the summer of 1993, I decided to see what would happen if I made my own where-I'm-from lists, which I did, in a black and white speckled composition book. I edited them into a poem — not my usual way of working — but even when that was done I kept on making the lists. The process was too rich and too much fun to give up after only one poem. Realizing this, I decided to try it as an exercise with other writers, and it immediately took off. I hope you won't stop there, though.
Thesaurus Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets If you're walking or biking around New York City this weekend you might look up at a busy intersection and see signs like these: John Morse/NYC DOT Traffic warning street signs written as haiku are appearing on poles around the five boroughs, posted by the New York City Department of Transportation. The poems and accompanying artwork were created by artist John Morse. "Poetry has a lot of power," Morse tells NPR's Scott Simon. Take, for example, these signs that urge pedestrians, drivers and bikers to walk, drive and ride responsibly: Accidents aren't funny, but Morse's artful treatment gets a serious message across in a powerful way. The bold colors and clever words take signs that would otherwise fade into the background into the forefront. "There's a lot of visual clutter ... all around us," Morse says. Morse says one delightful and unexpected consequence of the project is that it has brought some haiku poets out of the woodwork.
Poetry as a Vehicle for Social Change Skip to main content Login/Join You are here Home » Resources social justice, digital poetry, poetry, social change Resource Poetry as a Vehicle for Social Change Poetry as a vehicle for social change is a collection of lessons and poetry that has been used in middle and high school classes in Central Texas. Additionally, in the following pages of the resource, I've included student examples of this work. Related External links Social Action Collective Next Log in or register to post comments 0 Posted by Jennifer Woollven on Jul 23 2011 Browse this Resource Bookmark this page Jump to Comments Share post ShareThis Copy and Paste
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF POEMS BY RUDYARD KIPLING Kipling gained renown throughout the world as a poet and storyteller. He was also known as a leading supporter of the British Empire. As apparent from his stories and poems, Kipling interested himself in the romance and adventure which he found in Great Britain's colonial expansion. Kipling was born on Dec.30, 1865, in Bombay, where his father directed an art school. In 1889, Kipling return to England. Kipling composed many of his poems while living for several years in the United States in the mid-1890s. In 1896, Kipling returned to England from the United States. In 1900, Kipling went to South Africa to report the Boer War for an English newspaper. Before World War I, Kipling became active in politics. he widely lectured and wrote for the British cause both before and during the war.
10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies | PsyBlog Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments explain why we sometimes do dumb or irrational things. “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures.Why do good people sometimes act evil?Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like famous social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil), I’m also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people — something social psychologists have comprehensively shown. Each of the 10 brilliant social psychology experiments below tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day. Click the link in each social psychology experiment to get the full description and explanation of each phenomenon. 1. The halo effect is a finding from a famous social psychology experiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Dark Love Poems. From THE BODY by Michael Benedikt (Wesleyan Univ. Press l968). 21st Century Updates undefined Dark Love Poems by Michael Benedikt Last Modified 4/04 Poems about Love, Passion & Erotic Excess from THE BODY, Benedikt's 1st poetry book (Wesleyan U. Reminder--this site for college-level & above only, please. Poems At This Page: (1) Divine Love (2) The Grand Guignols of Love (3) Joy (4) Sextette: The Great Divan (5) Before Going On (6) Events by Moonlight & (7) A Memory: The Young Lovers Info re eros-related verse coming in '04 to our Newcompanion-page with poems from Sky, here. This page of Love Poems by a Contemporary US poet is part of a website with selections from THE BODY and SKY, the lst two poetry books by Michael BenediktBoth books were lst published in the Wesleyan U. Other Themes/Types of Poems in THE BODY Links to the other pages of this Benedikt early poetry site are given towards end of this page at Links to Other Pages Within This BODY-SKY Website Info on recent eros-related poems by author, here for Robert Bly "Wait," he said. And kayaking in mid-Atlantic, alone.
Morning Cup of Coffee: A Wise Choice? For many people, a morning cup of coffee is the perfect way to kick start the day. But is this daily habit a source of concern? Should you pay attention to the claims about the negative effects of caffeine, and ditch your daily morning cup of coffee? According to Mayo Clinic experts, coffee does not have any negative effects on health; in fact it may even have offer health benefits in certain cases! The catch of course is that your coffee intake should be moderate. Excessive intake of coffee, about 4 to 7 cups daily, can lead to anxiety, restlessness, irritability and sleeplessness in some individuals explains Dr. Effects of Your Daily Morning Cup of Coffee Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, nutrition and epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health believes that ‘There is certainly much more good news than bad news, in terms of coffee and health.’ What about the effects of coffee on your alertness and concentration levels? Conclusion: If anything, coffee consumption is healthy!
Spacemen Will Bring Us Socialism From the Stars At the end of the year we seem to be getting even more endtimes fervor than usual, between the fizzled Mayan apocalypse and the not-yet-fizzled fiscal cliff, which is basically the Mayan apocalypse for policy nerds. As a final farewell to the doom-filled year of 2012 and in anticipation of all the new millennial strangeness awaiting us in 2013, I give you the most Criswellian Marxist text of the 1960s, J. Posadas' pamphlet "Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy, science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle and the socialist future of mankind," which someone has kindly translated and posted at marxists.org. Some excerpts: Many people have already seen UFOs. General MacArthur, that Yankee murderer, said with regard to the disappearance of a plane that had struck a strange object: "perhaps we -- together with the Soviets -- will have to make war against an enemy arriving from outside Earth". [Via jamie k.]
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