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From: Rob Reid <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:16:30 -0700
I love all the poetry that's going on now. I try to include at least one poem in every program I do (and usually wind up doing several). I tell kids I'm going to do the world's toughest tongue twisters - and that they are actually poems in disguise - and recite "The Baby's Drinking Song" by James Kirkup and then Dennis Lee's massive poem "The Sitter and the Butter and the Better Batter Fritter" from Alligator Pie. Tonight, my students in the University of Wisconsin?u Claire Young Adult Lit class will be doing their "Poetry Club" assignment, where we read poems to each, poems appropriate for middle and high school. Next week, our public library is hosting the North Carolina team Poetry Alive to do three programs for school kids during the day and the public at night. So I'm in poetry heaven right now...
Ginny, it was good to see you in Eau Claire yesterday talking about the CCBC Choices, and Megan in Stevens Point two weeks ago. Katie - I've missed seeing you but want to let you know your book is EXCELLENT. I'm putting these personal displays of affection out for everyone just to remind the world what great resources and human beings you three are! We in Wisconsin are counting our blessings to have you in our backyard.
I'll conclude my ramblings with a favorite poem by John Ciardi:
About Being Very Good and Far Better Than Most But Still Not Quite Good Enough To Take on the Atlantic Ocean
There was a fine swimmer named Jack Who swam ten miles out - and nine back!
(What more can I tell you? That boy had style, But in the end, he missed by a mile.)
Rob Reid UW?u Claire/L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library 715?9(98 reidra at ci.eau-claire.wi.us
Received on Thu 16 Apr 1998 01:16:30 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:16:30 -0700
I love all the poetry that's going on now. I try to include at least one poem in every program I do (and usually wind up doing several). I tell kids I'm going to do the world's toughest tongue twisters - and that they are actually poems in disguise - and recite "The Baby's Drinking Song" by James Kirkup and then Dennis Lee's massive poem "The Sitter and the Butter and the Better Batter Fritter" from Alligator Pie. Tonight, my students in the University of Wisconsin?u Claire Young Adult Lit class will be doing their "Poetry Club" assignment, where we read poems to each, poems appropriate for middle and high school. Next week, our public library is hosting the North Carolina team Poetry Alive to do three programs for school kids during the day and the public at night. So I'm in poetry heaven right now...
Ginny, it was good to see you in Eau Claire yesterday talking about the CCBC Choices, and Megan in Stevens Point two weeks ago. Katie - I've missed seeing you but want to let you know your book is EXCELLENT. I'm putting these personal displays of affection out for everyone just to remind the world what great resources and human beings you three are! We in Wisconsin are counting our blessings to have you in our backyard.
I'll conclude my ramblings with a favorite poem by John Ciardi:
About Being Very Good and Far Better Than Most But Still Not Quite Good Enough To Take on the Atlantic Ocean
There was a fine swimmer named Jack Who swam ten miles out - and nine back!
(What more can I tell you? That boy had style, But in the end, he missed by a mile.)
Rob Reid UW?u Claire/L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library 715?9(98 reidra at ci.eau-claire.wi.us
Received on Thu 16 Apr 1998 01:16:30 PM CDT
