Posted by: parrishka on: April 29, 2006
this has been an exhausting week. aside from the joys of new poetry experiences, and the attendant anxieties around organizing even the simplest of events, the committee I’m involved in at the school was making a big presentation to the staff this week where we were proposing a revision to the structure and schedule of [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: April 27, 2006
so we had our first slam competition at the school on tuesday and what an eye-opener it was. first, we actually had 9 poets perform, and they were all amazing. they all brought a strength to the performance- some kids I knew quite well, some kids who I knew but didn’t know they had that [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: April 23, 2006
what an amazing month it’s been for poetry in the press!
the globe and mail ran reviews of shift and switch (by Christian Bök, our man in Calgary) and the coach house spring line-up (by Sonnet L’Abbé) in two successive weekends. (No point in linking them cause the globe keeps its archives under lock and key [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: April 23, 2006
SAT Power Tactics for The iPod !
“iPREPpress brings you SparkNotes test prep. Download the SAT Vocabulary Builder with Flocabulary Hip Hop audio as the first in a Series of SAT Power Tactics. “
there’s just too much to say about this.
Posted by: parrishka on: April 23, 2006
am I showing up really late to the party? i just discovered that the good ole text adventure is finding new life on my ipod.
is anyone writing about this in blog land?
ahh.
apparently this was news in 2004.
still, i’m surprised i haven’t heard mor enoise about this from the usual suspects.
Posted by: parrishka on: April 14, 2006
one of the things i missed during my own slumber was the long awaited launch of my dear friend angela rawling’s gorgeous Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists. I’ve been watching this work develop for as long as I’ve known angela. and its birthing has only been slowed because angela’s endowed with such a strong sense of [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: April 14, 2006
I’ve been sick for the past week. thought i’d beat it over the weekend, dragged myself in on monday to kick start the novel for the 11’s, then crawled back home to take what i was sure would be one sick day. but one day’s fever bloomed into two and then three.
it wouldn’t have been [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: April 2, 2006
Gary Barwin started a blog!
Posted by: parrishka on: April 1, 2006
I seem to have lost my last blog post. it’s okay. writing it and thinking through the issues has already made an impact in my classroom.
i was thinking about my 1st period 3U’s. They’re a solid bunch of kids academically- smart and responsible. They’re finding this composition thing more difficult than the other class. I’ve [...]
