mastodon 4.7.3English prof (Creative writing, poetry), teaching and learning at a public uni in New Hampshire
@actualham@social.coop @kate@aus.social @leaton01@scholar.social the mark, the crease in paper, the trace … what a beautiful piece. We were talking about this idea of a human trace in class today as we were imagining the little paper zines we might make, imagining the circumstances of both intentional and more accidental/random distribution that might get them from our human making into other human hands 💜
Whitman, on “animals,” from “Song of Myself:”
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
@actualham@social.coop Boot Edge Edge (You know I love an astronaut but I want to hold that AZ senate seat)
@actualham@social.coop my brother will enthusiastically want to advise you if Japan is a contender….
@actualham@social.coop I got this in last night, for whatever it may be worth. Thanks for sharing that post/info!
@actualham@social.coop or wait 3-4 years until they mandate switch to the Newer And Improveder Even Shittier tech! 🫠
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious leap day?
@actualham@social.coop with a grateful nod to Adrienne Rich, "Claim Your Education” or "Claming Your Education?” Also, upvote for BYOB, either flavor.
@ash@bullcity.space Really lovely. Congrats! I may use this alongside Ross Gay's poem with my creative writing students next semester. 💜
Today in the poetry workshop: we made collages inspired by poems (I gave everybody a different "source" poem); the collages were then randomly redistributed so that everybody now has someone else's collage. For Tuesday: write a poem of your own inspired by the collage you got. (I took the source poems back so poets would not feel beholden or encumbered by them as they drafted.) Here's my collage.
@alexgast@bullcity.space I taught (?) this book in a class, in 2018 I think, and there was SO MUCH to talk and think about! Loved it. Brilliant and profoundly wacky.
Wrote a chicken stock poem about love. Or a love poem featuring chicken stock. Or something. 💜🐔
The creative writing students are SLAYING this semester. They are so creative and wise and present, and it's giving me LIFE.
Huh. A year and a half since my last blog post. So, here's a new one, inspired by work I did with undergraduate poetry students last semester. Would love to connect with others who are sharing (classroom) teaching/learning approaches to poetry, old faithfuls or new experiments or anything in between.
https://lizahl.com/2024/02/25/teaching-learning-in-progress-poetry-through-collage/
“This is a standardized system that is all costs, no benefits. It has no "architecture of participation" that lets teachers, students, parents, practitioners and even commercial publishers collaborate to produce a commons that all may share and improve upon.”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/#a-commons
Really terrific collection of essays, and I love the coversation/commentary accompanying each piece. https://mnprisonwriting.org/american-precariat/
@naomi_ovr@bullcity.space Oooh. That hits.
@amelialoeffler@bullcity.space "Blackberrying" was, I think, the first Plath poem I ever encountered. 💜