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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 05:55:41 -0400
Please don't throw things at me, but I confess that I enjoy analyzing literature and admire tremendously those who can lead others to do it in a way that is exciting not deadening. For example, last year I had a transcendent experience observing the poet Natasha Trethewey lead my 4th graders in a close reading of several Amistad poems by her friend,
Elizabeth Alexander. (Elizabeth did last year's Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color with Marilyn Nelson.)
Natasha then had the class write a poem together after which the children were inspired to write their own. Here are links to posts at my class blog where you can read more about this, see the children's poems/collages, and hear them and Natasha read in a podcast.
http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/02/21/amistad-poetry/ http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/02/24/our-amistad-poem-collages/ http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/03/07/a-very-special-literary-salon-030707/
As for anthologies, I just received Inside Out: Children's Poets Discuss Their Work published by Walker (I think just in the UK at the moment) and edited by JonArno Lawson. Each of the twenty-four poems in the book is followed by a commentary by the poet. These are fascinating; some are writing about poems they wrote decades earlier. I have a bit more about the book and a list of the poets at my blog
(http://medinger.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/inside-out-childrens-poets-discuss-their-work/)
Monica
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 05:55:41 -0400
Please don't throw things at me, but I confess that I enjoy analyzing literature and admire tremendously those who can lead others to do it in a way that is exciting not deadening. For example, last year I had a transcendent experience observing the poet Natasha Trethewey lead my 4th graders in a close reading of several Amistad poems by her friend,
Elizabeth Alexander. (Elizabeth did last year's Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color with Marilyn Nelson.)
Natasha then had the class write a poem together after which the children were inspired to write their own. Here are links to posts at my class blog where you can read more about this, see the children's poems/collages, and hear them and Natasha read in a podcast.
http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/02/21/amistad-poetry/ http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/02/24/our-amistad-poem-collages/ http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2007/03/07/a-very-special-literary-salon-030707/
As for anthologies, I just received Inside Out: Children's Poets Discuss Their Work published by Walker (I think just in the UK at the moment) and edited by JonArno Lawson. Each of the twenty-four poems in the book is followed by a commentary by the poet. These are fascinating; some are writing about poems they wrote decades earlier. I have a bit more about the book and a list of the poets at my blog
(http://medinger.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/inside-out-childrens-poets-discuss-their-work/)
Monica
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School 108 East 89th Street New York NY 10128 monicaedinger at gmail.com my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.comReceived on Tue 08 Apr 2008 04:55:41 AM CDT
