From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:40:44 -0400

I've enjoyed the poetry discussion so much.

Here's an easy way to bring poetry into your life all year 'round. Two years ago I discovered the Wondering Minstrels listserv that sends you a poem-a?y. Lately the poems have been coming less frequently, but it's always a pleasure to find them in my in-box . . . and the archive is very useful.

This list is not for children's poems, of course - although occasionally someone will send in a favorite childhood poem and that will start a string of them - but having any poetry appear from beyond, like a gift, when you open your e-mail is a treasure.

For the archive and information on joining Wondering Minstrels, go to: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/

Another way I like to enjoy poetry is listening daily to Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on the radio. You can also find the text each day at: www.writersalmanac.org

Here's Garrison's poem for today, May 1 - for all of us who work with teens:

Postcard from Harmony Parking Lot

The teens have gathered, because they are teens. They wear brown shirts faded to beige, black boots, low-slung jeans. The way they stand is called jaunty. Cigarettes burn through their words, smoke blows through their hair, and the way they stare at passersby blends reptile with bird, spleen with wonder, your past with their present to you.
"Postcard from Harmony Parking Lot," by Wyn Cooper from Secret Address
(Chapiteau Press).


Thanks for all your good thoughts this month, Connie Rockman Stratford, CT
Received on Thu 01 May 2003 09:40:44 AM CDT