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Teachers Using Poetry to Commemorate 9/11

As we remember the terrorist attacks on the United States 11 years ago today, there is a great article on the Good website about how teachers are using poetry to help students understand and commemorate 9/11. The teachers had students do research on 9/11 using online resources, including those from the Times. Students’ responses to discussion questions were put …

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Adam Bradley

Poetry on the Web – Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Author makes a case for hip-hop and poetry (from Kansan.com) Jay-Z and Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare and Big Daddy Kane, Ralph Ellison and Kanye West. On Thursday night, the names mixed together indiscriminately. Adam Bradley, an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, delivered the message that rap is pounding on the door of …

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Steven Bernstein

Poetry on the Web – Wednesday, November 2, 2011

‘Godfather of grunge’: Documentary examines Seattle poet Steven Bernstein’s life (from Kalamazoo Gazette) A poet and performer in the days before every self-respecting coffeehouse hosted its own “slam night,” Steven Jesse Bernstein had a wicked way with words that connected with the segment of youth culture that embraced punk rock in the late 1970s and …

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