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Liberating Spirits
14 August 2007 @ 07:01 | Guest Post | 17 Comments
“[Literary works] do not endure as objects but as presences. When you read anything worth remembering, you liberate a human voice. You release into the world again a companion spirit.” ”“Louise Gluck, Poet
Plaid skirts, fresh backpacks, and blank notebooks. August belly-flops into a pool of early September mornings. It’s not always a graceful [...]
WWAD?
7 August 2007 @ 10:49 | Guest Post | 16 Comments
What Would Atticus Do?
Those very words have left my lips. More than once, I’m afraid. And not just during English class but while chatting with groups of 8th graders about life, liberty, and the dress code.
Poetic License: In Defense of Taking Scripture Out of Context
31 July 2007 @ 09:36 | Guest Post, Poetry | 16 Comments
This is the first in a series of guest posts by Deborah– a middle & high school English teacher, an amateur poet, and a blogger at Exponent II.
I WENT out to the hazel wood
Because a fire was in my head
I do not know the rest of the poem by heart. [...]
