Gannon University Poetry Contest

Deadline:  Feb. 1

http://www.gannon.edu/Academic-Offerings/Humanities-Education-and-Social-Sciences/Undergraduate/English/Poetry-Contest/

Prose Poetry (BOA author)

In the Light of One Lamp   Sean Thomas Dougherty

I crawled into bed and closed my eyes and not long after heard the small hooves of the horses, the tiny ones that gallop in our dreams, or are they the dreams of our children, galloping through the black ruins. Everything we do is against the crippling light. To hear them cry at night is to know they are alive. When they are scared they come galloping down the long hall calling your name. Tonight, it is our oldest daughter, the red mare with her fiery mane, she snuggles in between us and falls back to sleep in your arms, to that secret place inside her, she barely moves, crossing over the river, through a grove of alders, through the black ruins, she is the one who once whispered, the grass it knows everything.            Copyright © 2017 Sean Thomas Dougherty. Used with permission of the author.

New poems/Famous Poem Project

AGENDA:

Work on new poems for marking period and workshop.

Find a poem and poet for FAMOUS POEM video project (see previous post)

Naomi Shihab Nye

AGENDA:

Work on poems

WORKSHOP

The Young Poets of Winnipeg

Naomi Shihab Nye

scurried around a classroom papered with poems.
Even the ceiling, pink and orange quilts of phrase…
they introduced one another, perched on a tiny stage
to read their work, blessed their teacher who
encouraged them to stretch, wouldn’t let their parents
attend the reading because parents might criticize,
believed in the third and fourth eyes, the eyes in
the undersides of leaves, the polar bears a thousand miles north,
and sprouts of grass under the snow. They knew their poems
were glorious, that second-graders could write better
than third or fourth, because of what happened
on down the road, the measuring sticks
that came out of nowhere, poking and channeling
the view, the way fences broke up winter,
or driveways separated the smooth white sheets
birds wrote on with their feet.

Wild Turkey Tracks in the Snow   Tim Engleman           This image is in the public domain.

Scholastic deadline/More poetry prompts

AGENDA:

Scholastic portfolio deadline!

Select  and write 5 (five) poems from poetry prompts.

Handout: