Willie Perdomo’s “Where I’m From” is published in Perdomo’s book, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime. As you read, notice how Perdomo begins by appealing to a specific listener and then allows his poem to grow through images and dialogue and language that reads like music. There is a spoken element to this work even […]
Mohamed Hassan-(un)LEARNING MY NAME
Spoken word artist and poet Mohamed Hassan explores the story of his name in this skillful video. The story of our names can relate to the actual meaning of our names, our relationship with people who gave us our names, and the complicated personal history we have with our names. As you watch consider the […]
Ed Hirsch: How To Read a Poem
The American Academy of Poets has an invaluable introductory resource on their website (http://poets.org) by the poet Edward Hirsch. To write poetry well, you think about how to read a poem well. You likely already do this with songs you like and listen to over and over again. Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” discusses […]
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