PORTFOLIO/SOKOL/GANNON

Agenda:

PORTFOLIO (DUE: Friday, Jan. 20):

Should add and clip (2nd marking period)

1. GHAZAL
2. DIALECTICAL POEM
3. SESTINA
4. VILLANELLE
5. FAVORITE POEM PROJECT SCRIPT
6. HAIKUS, TANKA 
7. 2 Revisions
8. SOKOL and/or Gannon entry (Indicate on copy which poem you are submitting)

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Write up script for Favorite Poem project.  Record on Friday?

won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton

won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.   Lucille Clifton, “won’t you celebrate with me” from Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 1991 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., boaeditions.org.

I, Too Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.