Tag: Poetry

  • DAVID DUCHOVNY AND ELIZABETH GILBERT

    DAVID DUCHOVNY AND ELIZABETH GILBERT

    Actor David Duchovny recently told someone I admire that poetry is useless but necessary.   Zzzzzz. Do a Google search.  Like many of his comments, Duchovny is not the first person to use this analogy, a clunky way of saying that he’s so much deeper than other people.   How quickly celebrities rise in the book publishing…

  • TEACHING POETRY

    TEACHING POETRY

    My students are SO bright!  They noticed and identified every subversive, poetic image in these lyrics by Sly & The Family Stone.   That’s why teaching poetry is so important. I hand out a packet of poems and lyrics, and my students have a full day or two to mark it up, circle, and underline whatever…

  • Poetry, Eve as Hero

    Poetry, Eve as Hero

    One semester I taught a course on poetry.  Each day I handed out copies of the poems we would discuss the next class, and I encouraged my students to mark them up and when we had the discussion the next class day to keep taking notes.  There is an Adam and Eve Poem tradition in…