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ms. a. raw sends goodies in the e-mail: gerry shikitani, margaret christakos, wayde compton, oh my!

LEMON HOUND: “But it could also be a site that houses readings and performances across the board–where are our sound files?? Aside from a few on UBU and Philly, and now the files that the Griffin Site is adding, there is relatively little out there. Where are files of Dionne Brand, Tim Lilburn, Chris Dewdney, [...]

“Here’s the part about the literacy club. While I was surveying this forced march through a magazine article, I thought about how useful these kinds of tasks are for keeping kids busy. Now that they know how to read well enough to look things up, reading can become an end in itself. I could do [...]

3. Which teaching methods do you find are the most useful when teaching your class, and which kind of poems do the students find more engaging?
My answer to both of these questions is “it depends.”
With regards to teaching methods, it depends on what kinds of texts I’m teaching, who my students are, and what [...]

greg betts is a cool guy. he teaches this very cool course. when he surveyed his students, he learned that 98% of them had never read a canadian poem. One of his students is interviewing me about teaching can. cont. poetry in high schools. it’s an e-mail interview. thought i’d post some of my answers [...]

i chaperoned the semi-formal on thursday night, and it was the easiest supervision i’ve ever done.
no drinking, no drugs, no fights- heck, i didn’t even see a messy breakup.
just 150 kids dancing their faces off.
it was pretty beautiful. reminded me why i cross the city each day to work with these kids.
one puzzling thing.
the [...]

the inimitable kenny g, no, not that one, was in our town this week, for a special lexiconjury celebrating the launch of the open letter issue dedicated to his work. it was great to see him, and the old and new gang. more later.

this has been a great but crazy busy week.
at least I feel a bit more settled and the classes are in the group routines- so papers aren’t going missing.
my student teacher began teaching the 12s on Monday. I learned just how much I’ve learned about questioning technique in the past 7 years. I do remember [...]

i finally figured out why my comment notification wasn’t working.
there was a typo in my e-mail address.
forgive my delayed responses hitherto!

a wiki(pedia) history of the universe
could be morphed into a history of anything.
it’s a process essay!
it’s a language lesson (nouns)!
it’s a friggin’ media mark!