Comments on: Poetry Month with Humanities Guest Blogger, Michael Gause

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:56:33 +0000

Ah Michael, you do a fine turn of word yourself!

The question begs to be answered…how does one celebrate poetry month?

For myself, it is….

To listen
to the everyday poetry
of everyday life
everyday of my life

By: judd1535

judd1535 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:08:15 +0000

Well done, good sir. A fine list of suggestions.

By: Jessi Lund

Jessi Lund — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:21:02 +0000

Great Blog, Michael! You have such an ellegant way of writing – I really love it! I plan on reading some Robert Frost (one of my favorites) to our baby boy very soon!

By: Odilia Rivera Santos

Odilia Rivera Santos — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:38:31 +0000

In honor of poetry month, I wrote some poetry and signed up to read it at A Gathering of the Tribes, a little gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and I imagined a lot of things secretly that I will slip into another fairytale novel

By: Kat McGerik

Kat McGerik — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:23:11 +0000

So, while I don’t really know a whole lot about poetry, I’m up for the challenge to learn more about it! I’m excited about “Humanities in the News” and, in particular, what this month has to offer me with continued knowledge, understanding and appreciation of poetry.

By: Fawny

Fawny — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:49:21 +0000

I plan to think of my favorite poems during yoga class, I promise to read poetry to my kids, and I promise to take in all of the great poetry in my New Yorker. Thanks for the information about National Poetry Month – this is terrific!

By: imizoniwreree

imizoniwreree — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:42:05 +0000

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By: Wendy Brown-Baez

Wendy Brown-Baez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:33:47 +0000

How can you live without poetry? It is the way I love the world and the world reflects itself back to me…words, twists of language and meaning, metaphors to point to or light up the mystery. Children resopnd to poetry as rhythm and song as soon as they are born. My grandson loves me to sing “Hush little baby, don’t say a word, Mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird” etc. After I sang it twice, he is able to supply the rhyming word at the end of each line. Thus I teach him poetry, the heartbeat he remembers from the womb.
I bring poems to the young people I teach in a writing workshop before we write. I don’t have to in order to write together, it’s just an excuse to share my favorite poems.
I am celebrating National Poetry Month by taking the Megabus to Chicago, an 8 hour bus ride, and staying at the Youth Hostel 2 nights in order to present one poem at the Harold Washington Library on April 25th. To be part of the experience, to widen my poetry network.

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:06:02 +0000

This is awesome! Great article. What does poetry month mean to me? Poetry everywhere, even on the cafe table, even in this blog:

Beneath my nightstand
Gather stray strands
Of you, little tumbleweed.

Butter made
From bitter milk
Left out too
Long in the sun
Doesn’t melt.

Maybe one day
Better birds
Will find
Room for you
In their beaks