Growing up as a budding young writer, it seemed anytime something difficult would happen to me my mother would say, “Look at the bright side, at least you’ll get a good poem out of it.” Granted, when I was crying my eyes out over my latest heartbreak, those words could be cold comfort. But of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Poems’
October 6, 2007
Poems my Students* (*mostly Puerto Rican teen moms who’ve dropped out of school) Love
My students have seriously influenced my taste in poetry. After years of teaching the subject to teen mothers who’ve dropped out of high school, I’ve started to see poems through their eyes.
If you’ve never spent time with my students, you might think there’s a danger that my tastes have been dumbed down; that I [...]
September 30, 2007
Sincerely Whose? or Poems in the form of letters
The other day I was reading a love poem a student was working on and came upon an ambiguous line. “You need to give your reader a little more information here,” I told her. “No I don’t,” she said, “the poem is to my boyfriend and he’ll know what I’m talking about.”“Whoa! Hold on.” I [...]
