Poetry
Speech and Rhythm, are the two elements of language development. Music and Reading Connections
April is National Poetry Month
Search for poety audio clips by poem title or the author's name. Hear The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Books news: Earliest "Howl" tape uncovered at ReedThe first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit
Speech and Rhythm
Rhythmic Synchrony governs conversation, and is part of life from infancy to old age. Tempos may vary from culture to culture and person to person but folks who successfully relate manage to stay in sync.
Collect Playground Poetry Classroom Activity
Music and Reading Connection
students who were highly involved in the arts had higher grades and standardized test scores. Find information about the Broca's area, How to Integrate Music and Reading, why Music Makes You Smarter Research, Study Ties Mental Abilities To Interaction of Emotion and Cognitive Skills, Rhythm Syllables, Languages' rhythm and language acquisition
BEAT GENERATION
The Beat Museum
San Francisco museum dedicated to Beat generation authors and their legacy. The collections section features images of selected items from the museum's holdings of books, manuscripts, and ephemera, such as a Jack Kerouac autograph and bobble head doll, signed pictures of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, and covers of books by and about Beat authors.
Present at the Creation: Kerouac's "On the Road"audio and video of Kerouac reading, image of the scroll
2002 report about the creation of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," which was published in 1957 and had been "completed -- from start to finish -- in only three weeks. And he used just one long, scrolled piece of paper, improvising endlessly, just like a jazz musician."
Beat Poet Ted Joans, 1928-2003 Joans’s mantra was "Jazz is my religion and surrealism is my point of view."
On May 7 2003, Ted Joans, extraordinary poet and world citizen, joined the ancestors. If you didn’t know Ted, then you couldn’t really dig how the Village became hip in the 1950s. The truly "teducated" knew Mr. Joans as a tornado of a man, slight in stature, copper in tone with big dancing eyes, who spoke in up-tempo cadences, as if he swallowed a horn and had a rhythm section under his hat. Meeting Ted eight years ago, I learned to possess the power to pull the marvelous out of a pot or a champagne glass, a sliver of garlic or a tattered roll of paper, a memory, story, or song.
Born in Cairo, Illinois, Joans came into the world on July 4, 1928, but contrary to myth he was not born on a riverboat. He studied trumpet, sang bebop, and earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Indiana University before moving to Greenwich Village in 1951 and becoming a true bohemian. He was one of the original Beat poets, though you wouldn’t know it from most Beat anthologies. He was the author of over 30 books of poetry, prose, and collage, including Black Pow-Wow, Beat Funky Jazz Poems, Afrodisia, Jazz is Our Religion, Double Trouble, Wow, and Teducation. Joans was the granddaddy of bringing jazz and "spoken word" together on the bandstand. When his former roommate, the great saxophonist Charlie Parker, passed away in 1955, it was Joans who began scrawling "Bird Lives!" all over Lower Manhattan.
A well-known black expatriate, Joans initially bypassed Europe and went straight to the Motherland in the early 1960s. Timbuktu became his home base, but he traveled around much of the world—a boho hobo and proud of it—doing poetry readings, writing jazz criticism, creating "happenings" as such events came to be called. He exchanged ideas with the leading figures of surrealism, hung out with Jack Kerouac, met an admiring Malcolm X, broke bread with Afro-Cuban painter Wifredo Lam and African American painter Bob Thompson, swapped bread tales with singer and hustler "Babs" Gonzalez, and played invisible man when the invites came with no bread. In recent years, he lived and traveled with his companion/compatriot, artist Laura Corsiglia Joans.
Did you know the words beat, and dig are Irish American Vernacular English?
San Francisco Bay Area photographer Larry Keenan. The site features examples of his photos of topics such as the Beat Generation (Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg), 1960s and 1970s counterculture (San Francisco Human Be-In in January 1967, and student protests), City Lights bookstore, and more.
Cowboy Poetry
- Cowboy Poetry Gathering started in 1985 the last and most resilient vestiges of the Old West banded together in the dead of winter to cement their heritage.
- Kenneth Wiggins Porter who wrote The Negro on the American Frontier (Arno, 1971) and cowboy poetry - The Kansas Poems
- Black Cowboy Poetry
- Cowboy Poetry Explained An essay by Hal Cannon, Founding Director of the Western Folklife Centeran An amazing amalgam of language, style and code which forever would identify Americans. It was a jazz of Irish storytelling and lore, Scottish seafaring and cattle tending, Moorish and Spanish Horsemanship, European Cavalry, African improvisation, and a reluctant observation of Native American survival that can be heard and seen in this way of life, even today.
RESOURCES
FLOCABULARY - RAPPERS HIP HOP HANDBOOK
The Rapper's Handbook Guide to Freestyling, Writing Rhymes and Battling is the complete how-to-guide for up-and-coming rappers and everyone who wants to learn to rap. Did you know that a poem is available for each weekday of the school year from the Library of Congress Poetry 180 project?
Teaching Poetry in K12 education.
National Endowment for the Arts Announces Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest High school students across the nation to compete in national poetry recitation contest Contact: Sally Gifford 202-682-5606 giffords@arts.gov
Online Poetry Classroom
Academy of American Poets will launch the first-ever Poetry Read-a-Thon. Geared for middle school students (grades 5-8), the Read-a-Thons goals are to celebrate the reading of poems and writing about poems. In addition to emphasizing the pleasure and fun of reading poetry, the Read-a-Thon will facilitate the students development of writing and comprehension skills. Visit the Online Poetry Classroom to find a wealth of resources, including Teacher Forums where teachers can share ideas and seek help from colleagues; Pedagogical & Critical Essays about poetry; extensive links to relevant websites; Curriculum Units & Lesson Plans; biographies of hundreds of poets; and nearly two-thousand poems.
Poetry that can be read online
What do poetry and math have in common?
ABOUT Ray Kurzweil the Cybernetic Poet has created an interactive, intelligent software suite designed to act as a Poet's assistant as a Free download from Cyberart Technologies Inc. "With a little cyberhelp anyone can write creative adaptations based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's half-rhymes, William Butler Yeat's Alliterations; just to name a few," said Kurzweil.
ONLINE ARCHIVE TO FEATURE POETRY RECORDINGS
Andrew Motion, poet laureate of the United Kingdom, and record producer Richard Carrington are creating an online archive of recordings of English-speaking poets. The Poetry Archive will include recordings of poets including Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, Betjeman, and Sassoon and
will also feature recordings of living poets reading their own work, including Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, and Harold Pinter. Recordings of some important poets do not exist, however, including A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. In some cases, poets were recorded reading their work shortly before they died, allowing future generations to hear those poets. Motion and Carrington said the archive will prove especially valuable for students and teachers. Motion said, "The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact." BBC, 30 November 2005
Online Writng Tools Poetry Online Resources and Searchable Databases
A poem a day for american high schools
Cinquains & Diamantes-Creative Writing for Kids
Cinquain Poetry - what is it...examples given
Poetry Magazine
Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912 and still going. When the magazine was first published, Monroe remarkedThe Open Door will be the policy of this magazine-may the great poet we are
looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! On the homepage, visitors can learn about each months Featured Poets, and also take a look at the Featured Prose piece. Find articles about poetry slams, the work of the Persian poet Rumi, and The Poem as Comic Strip.
