National Public Radio (the American equivalent of the CBC) recently launched a program to celebrate National Poetry Month called #TMMPoetry, or "Tell Me More".
Go to Twitter and search #tmmpoetry
Read as many as you like. Some are pretty awesome, some pretty awful.
Choose one you really like and write it into your log. Explain why you chose it.
(Bonus: choose one you thought was really awful and do the same as above.)
In your log, write a few drafts of a #tmmpoetry text....remember it must be no more than 140 characters.
Have a peer read your drafts. What can you improve? Which is best?
Go on your twitter account, if you have one. Include and post your poem referencing @buckeyesnyc so I will see it automatically. (unfortunately it counts towards your 140 characters). If you're brave, put it out there with the #tmmpoetry tag.
OR, if you're not feeling at all brave, write your final draft in the comment section below. However, I would really encourage you to put it out there!
I couldn't find one that I did not like (believe it or not), so I decided to do this one that someone wrote: "behind his smile/windswept plains/in his mouth/ deprived villages collapsing."
ReplyDeleteReason why I choose this one is because of the fact that I feel as though it is talking about...(finish next class)
I feel as though it is talking about how this person feels as if people in second-world countries have been screwed over and they have been as well. The American`s/Canadian's have really screwed them over and we wonder why they are in need. It is because of us.
DeleteAnd that is what this poem is about to me.