Here is Willie Perdomo, a poet who has visited City Tech for the Literary Arts Festival. Perdomo is a dramatic and powerful reader and provides a good example of the value of listening to poetry discussed by Ed Hirsch in his How to Read a Poem, also on our class site. The link to 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 […]
TedEd: “What Makes a Poem…a Poem?”
“What Makes a Poem?” created by Melissa Kovac for TedEd, discusses very briefly the components and history of various poetic forms. The video (5 min.) looks through history and considers how some social media forms use compressed language like poetry. Music too becomes poetry. About four minutes in, the video refers to the Greek word […]