Does Poetry Matter?
At the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/18/does-poetry-matter
Interesting blog post from author Beth Kephart about poetry. Fun since I just posted about Going Over yesterday and poetry just before that:
http://beth-kephart.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-it-is-time-again-to-teach-i-turn.html
As I continue to rethink my approach to the teaching of poetry in AP literature this year, I am pleased at the ease with which Kephart accesses poetry to prepare for teaching!
"But to live continually in the natter of ill-written and ill-spoken prose is to become deaf to what language can do."
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