HWK - this week

Tuesday: Poetry Terms Test

Wednesday: Poem of Choice - Post and Bring HARD COPY of YOUR POEM

Thursday: In Computer Lab - Work on Presentations

Friday: Poetry Presentations begin... Volunteers to go first?

Poem of Choice - Due Wednesday.

Post to your poetry blog, 

and a printed HARD COPY - BEFORE CLASS!

Apply the elements of poetry including figurative language and the senses to create imagery:

GOATVOK (imagery)

            G = gustatory (taste)

            O = organic (internal sensation)

A = auditory (sound)

            T = tactile (touch)       

V = visual

            O = olfactory (smell)

            K = kinesthetic (movement)

Consider the choices you make in terms of the structure of the poem (stanzas, line breaks, format) and the sounds of the words (alliteration, consonance, assonance plus connotation and denotation).

Poetry Presentations

For your poetry Presentation of 5-7 minutes, you are required to present...

1. your poem and
2. your poet;
3. however, you must have a digital visual medium - PowerPoint, iMovie, Prezi, etc.

The options in terms of which digital visual medium are up to you.

You can give an oral presentation with PowerPoint Slides - or go further and make a Prezi or iMovie.

You must post your presentation to your blog - and YouTube if need be.

The order is up to you: What works best for you?

You can talk poem, then bio,  and explain the poem - or

Explain the poem, share the poem, and teach us about the poet.

Bottom line question: In 5-7 minutes, what do you want us to know
about your poet
and poem that makes both more interesting to your classmates?



Questions to Consider:

• Where did your poet grow up?
• Where did your poet go to school?
• What inspired your poet to write poetry? 
• How does your poet define poetry? What is his or her ars peotica?
• What other poets influenced your poet to write poetry?
• Who has your poet influenced? 
• Was your poet a part of a school or movement? See this Poetry Timeline.

On your blog, post links to the biography of your poet - curate a few interesting points with hyperlinks.

• Note the imagery and symbolism: select images 
• Note the theme and motifs
• Note the figurative language:
• Note the alliteration, assonance, consonance, meter 
• Note the allusions or references
• Note the rhyme scheme, form, enjambment etc.
• Note the tone - and shifts in tone

If you're looking for inspiration or "How to" Videos....Google it - and check youtube!
Tremendous resources are available! 
If you find a good one, please email it and I will share it below...

Thanks to Ashley for sharing: 




Need help with Prezi? 

Here's a good video that I discovered via Twitter:

Got 7 minutes? Learn how to use #Prezi: http://t.co/5pJQjWTc1p. pic.twitter.com/hD4Oyo7Xey
— Prezi (@prezi) April 22, 2014

Some inspiration of video with words:

 

Poetry Terms Test Tuesday - and Poem Due Wednesday

TEST: Tuesday - revised list of terms to know and identify in poems. 

Hint may wish to (re)read these poems - I will chose examples from Quizlet - and this list:

1. Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"  - Presented by Jason

2. Sexton, "Her Kind" 

3. Olds, "Rite of Passage"(with Audio) Presented by Tristan

4. Williams, "This Is Just to Say" Presented by Ashley

5. Eliot, "The Winter Evening Settles Down"  Presented by Ed

6. Tennyson, "The Eagle"   Presented by Colin and Connor 

7. Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" Presented by Emma H

8. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (with Audio) Presented by Felicia and Heidi

9. Plath, “Metaphors”  Presented by Ben

10. Lawrence, “Piano” Presented by Nico and Shannon

11. Bottoms, "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt" (Handout—this is not in the book)
Presented by Philip P

12. Frost, "Out, Out-" - Post by Mr. O'Brien

13. Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee..." - Post by Mr. O'Brien

Poem of Choice - Due Wednesday.
Apply the elements of poetry including figurative language and the senses to create imagery:

GOATVOK (imagery)

            G = gustatory (taste)

            O = organic (internal sensation)

A = auditory (sound)

            T = tactile (touch)       

V = visual

            O = olfactory (smell)

            K = kinesthetic (movement)

Consider the choices you make in terms of the structure of the poem (stanzas, line breaks, format) and the sounds of the words (alliteration, consonance, assonance plus connotation and denotation).


Metaphor: one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two.

"she is a fen of stagnant waters"- London (Wordsworth)

Simile: an explicit comparison between 2 different things, actions, or feelings, using the words 'as' or 'like'

"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" 

- Do not go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)

Personification: a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate things are referred to as if they were human.

"Press close bare-bosom'd night"
 "cool- breath'd earth!" - Song of Myself (Whitman)

Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines two contradicting terms in a compressed paradox

" O Death in Life..." - Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson)

Paradox: a statement or expression so surprisingly self contradictory as to provoke use into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true

"a novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons" - Song of Myself (Whitman)

Juxtaposition: placing two contrasting ideas side by side

"... blinding sight" - Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)

\
Pun: an expression that achieves emphasis or humour by contriving an ambiguity, two distinct meanings being suggested either by the same word or by 2 similar sounding words

"And every fair from fair sometimes declines" - Can I compare thee to a summer's Day (Shakespeare)

Theme: a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter; a recurring topic in a number of literary work

If you follow what God tells you to do, you will go to heaven- The Chimney Sweeper (Song of Innocence)

Tone: a vague critical term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work. Adjectives: romantic, nostalgic, ironic, sardonic, etc. See blog for list.

The Chimney Sweeper- Song of Experience- Dark Tone

Irony: a subtly humorous perception of inconsistency, in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance.

My Papa's Waltz (Roethke)- title is ironic because the dad's "dance" is very rough, unlike the waltz

Metonymy: a figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it

"... altar, sword, and pen" [*stand for church, army, and other scholars*] - London (Wordsworth)

Apostrophe: a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object

" 'Doth God exact day- labor, light denied?' I fondly asked" - When I considered how my light is spent (Milton)

Parallel structure/ parallelism: the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them

"And their sun does never shine,
 And their fields are bleak & bare,
 And their ways are fill'd with thorns" 

- Holy Thursday, Songs of Experience (Blake) 

Rhetorical Shift/ volta: a change in tone, attitude, speaker, subject etc. in a poem

"Rage, rage, Rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I Pray." 

- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan
[ Shift between "the light" and "And you, my father"]

Inversion: the reversal of the normally expected order of words.

said she 

End- stopped: brought to a pause at which the end of a verse coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax

I sat under the jacaranda, catching
the petals in my palm, enclosing them
until my fist was another lantern
hiding a small and bitter flame.- The Girl who loved the Sky by Anita Endrezze

Enjambment: the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.

Onomatopoeia the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
(Whack, fizz)

alliteration the repetition of the same sounds- usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables

"Whiskey, waltzing, wrist" "battered, beat, bed" 

"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke

consonance the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different

"Infant's tear... Marraige hearse" - London (blake)
[tear and hearse have the similar -ear spelling but are said in 2 different manners]

assonance repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

"returning chide" and "light denied"- When I consider how my light is spent (Milton)
or
Hit or miss

half rhyme/ slant rhyme a rhyme that doesnt exactly rhyme

"Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
they rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind" (pronounced Wined) - The Chimney Sweeper, Song of Innocence (Blake

end rhyme rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines

"Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead"  

"The Lamb" , Song of Innocence William Blake

Internal Rhyme: Two or more rhyme within the same line or verse

 I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores

Plus: Example of Scansion of Iambic Pentameter in Macbeth

Writing into the Future: HWK

In-class writing prompt: 
Write a poem (for your eyes only):
"A letter to your future ___________________"
(Fill in the blank - future spouse, child, grandchild, generations, etc.)

You may choose - or discover that words/lines from this prompt will end up in your poem next Wednesday. 

Austin Kleoon on NPR

HWK: Find a news article - cut it out/print it out -
and blackout words with a Sharpie/marker -
and make a new poem. 

Take inspiration from Austin Kleon's book Blackout 

From Amazon Review: 

Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need. (NPR's Morning Edition) 

One can imagine taking up blackout poetry on their daily bus commute in place of sudoku or the crossword puzzle. (Toronto's National Post) 

Sort of like Michelangelo carving away the marble that imprisoned what he saw within. (Cleveland Plain Dealer) 

“…a kind of Rorschach approach to reading newspapers…” (Wall Street Journal) 

“Highbrow/brilliant…It’s better than it sounds.” (New York magazine)

“[The poems] resurrect the newspaper when everyone else is declaring it dead…like a cross between magnetic refrigerator poetry and enigmatic ransom notes, funny and zen-like, collages of found art…” (The New Yorker) 

“Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.”
— Ephemerist 

Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout Poetry: Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need. Fans of Not Quite What I Was Planning andPost Secret will love these unique and compelling poems culled from Austin’s popular website.

More blackout poems - examples.

POEMS read in class today:

People of the Future

People of the future

while you are reading these poems, remember

you didn't write them, 

I did. 

- Ted Berrigan

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

To those born later

I

Truly I live in dark times!
Frank speech is naïve. A smooth forehead 
Suggests insensitivity. The man who laughs 
Has simply not yet heard
The terrible news.

What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
When the man over there calmly crossing the street
Is already perhaps beyond the reach of his friends                    10 
Who are in need?

It’s true that I still earn my daily bread
But, believe me, that’s only an accident. Nothing
I do gives me the right to eat my fill.
By chance I've been spared. (If my luck breaks, I'm lost.)

They say to me: Eat and drink! Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink if I snatch what I eat
From the starving
And my glass of water belongs to someone dying of thirst?
And yet I eat and drink.                                                                         20

I would also like to be wise.
In the old books it says what wisdom is:
To shun the strife of the world and to live out
Your brief time without fear
Also to get along without violence
To return good for evil
Not to fulfill your desires but to forget them
Is accounted wise.
All this I cannot do.
Truly, I live in dark times.                                                                      30

II

I came to the cities in a time of disorder 
When hunger reigned.
I came among men in a time of revolt 
And I rebelled with them.
So passed my time
Given to me on earth.

I ate my food between battles
I lay down to sleep among murderers

I practiced love carelessly
And I had little patience for nature’s beauty.                                 40 
So passed my time
Given to me on earth.

All roads led into the mire in my time.
My tongue betrayed me to the butchers.
There was little I could do. But those is power 
Sat safer without me: that was my hope.
So passed my time
Given to me on earth.

Our forces were slight. Our goal
Lay far in the distance                                                                            50 
Clearly visible, though I myself
Was unlikely to reach it.
So passed my time
Given to me on earth.

III
You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Bring to mind
When you speak of our failings
Bring to mind also the dark times
That you have escaped.                                                                          60

Changing countries more often than our shoes, 
We went through the class wars, despairing 
When there was only injustice, no outrage.

And yet we realized:
Hatred, even of meanness
Contorts the features.
Anger, even against injustice
Makes the voice hoarse. O,
We who wanted to prepare the ground for friendship 
Could not ourselves be friendly.                                                        70

But you, when the time comes at last 
When man is helper to man
Think of us
With forbearance.

                                                                                                             [1940] 

Brecht Biography

A Phone Call to the Future

1.
Who says science fiction
is only set in the future?
After a while, the story that looks least
believable is the past.
The console television with three channels.
Black and white picture. Manual controls:
the dial clicks when you turn it, like the oven.
You have to get up and walk somewhere to change things.
You have to leave the house to mail a letter. 

Waiting for letters. The phone rings: you're not there.
You'll never know. The phone rings, and you are,
there's only one, you have to stand or sit
plugged into it, a cord
confines you to the room where everyone
is also having dinner.
Hang up the phone. The family's having dinner. 

Waiting for dinner. You bake things in the oven.
Or Mother does. That's how it always is.
She sets the temperature: it takes an hour. 

The patience of the past.
The typewriter forgives its own mistakes.
You type on top sheet, carbon, onion skin.
The third is yours, a record of typeovers,
clotted and homemade-looking, like the seams
on dresses cut out on the dining table.
The sewing machine. The wanting to look nice.
Girls who made their dresses for the dance.

2.
This was the fifties: as far back as I go.
Some of it lasted decades.
That's why I remember it so clearly. 

Also because, as I lie in a motel room
sometime in 2004, scrolling
through seventy-seven channels on my back
(there ought to be more — this is a cheap motel room),
I can revisit evidence, hear it ringing.
My life is movies, and tells itself in phones. 

The rotary phone, so dangerously languid
and loud when the invalid must dial the police.
The killer coming up the stairs can hear it.
The detective ducks into a handy phone booth
to call his sidekick. Now at least there's touch tone.
But wait, the killer's waiting in the booth
to try to strangle him with the handy cord.
The cordless phone, first noted in the crook
of the neck of the secretary
as she pulls life-saving files.
Files come in drawers, not in the computer.
Then funny computers, big and slow as ovens.
Now the reporter's running with a cell phone
larger than his head,
if you count the antenna. 

They're Martians, all of these people,
perhaps the strangest being the most recent.
I bought that phone. I thought it was so modern.
Phones shrinking year by year, as stealthily
as children growing.

3.
It's the end of the world.
Or people are managing, after the conflagration.
After the epidemic. The global thaw.
Everyone's stunned. Nobody combs his hair.
Or it's a century later, and although
New York is gone, and love, and everyone
is a robot or a clone, or some combination, 

you have to admire the technology of the future.
When you want to call somebody, you just think it.
Your dreams are filmed. Without a camera.
You can scroll through the actual things that happened,
and nobody disagrees. No memory.
No point of view. None of it necessary. 

Past the time when the standard thing to say
is that, no matter what, the human endures.
That whatever humans make of themselves
is therefore human.
Past the transitional time
when humanity as we know it was there to say that.
Past the time we meant well but were wrong.
It's less than that, not any more a concept.
Past the time when mourning was a concept. 

Of course, such a projection,
however much I believe it, is sentimental —
belief being sentimental.
The thought of a woman born
in the fictional fifties. 

That's what I mean. We were Martians. Nothing's stranger
than our patience, our humanity, inhumanity.
Our worrying about robots. Earplug cell phones
that make us seem to be walking about like loonies
talking to ourselves. Perhaps we are. 

All of it was so quaint. And I was there.
Poetry was there; we tried to write it.

Mary Jo Salter
The Georgia Review
Special Focus: Creatures
Volume LIX, Number 3
Fall 2005 

Look to the Future

BY RUTH STONE

To you born into violence,

the wars of the red ant are nothing;

you, in the heart of the eruption.

I am speaking from immeasurable grass blades.

You, there on the rubble,

what is the river of vapor to you?

You who are helpless as small birds

downed on the ice pack.

You who are spoiled as

commercial fruit by the medfly.

To you the machine guns.

To you the semen of fire,

the birth of the maggot in the corpse.

You, to whom we send these gifts;

at the heart of light we are crushed together.

When the sun dies we will become one.

Ruth Stone, “Look to the Future” from Simplicity. Copyright © 1995 by Ruth Stone. Reprinted with the permission of Paris Press, Inc.

Source: Simplicity (1995)

Is this going to be on the test? Poetry Month Assessments

Poem #1 Due Monday, April 14th

Poetry Term Test on Tuesday, April 22nd 

Poem #2 Poem of Choice Due Wednesday, April 23rd

Poetry Presentations: 
5-7 minutes beginning April 24th

Presentations, Thursday, April 24th:

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6.


Presentations, Friday, April 25th

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3.
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6.

Poem #3, Choose a Form - Due Monday, April 28th 

Presentations, Tuesday, April 29th

1.
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5.
6.

Poem # 4, Due April 30th, Ars Poetica Due (A poem about poetry)

Final Poetry Test, May 2nd, May 2nd - Know your poets and poems (or at least the poets and poems that were presented and blogged by your classmates - I will give you hints along the way).

FYI - More Literary Terms that are good to know!

The Elements of Poetry: Poem Due Monday

Eating Poetry

BY MARK STRAND

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.

There is no happiness like mine.

I have been eating poetry.

The librarian does not believe what she sees.

Her eyes are sad

and she walks with her hands in her dress.

The poems are gone.

The light is dim.

The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.

Their eyeballs roll,

their blond legs burn like brush.

The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand.

When I get on my knees and lick her hand,

she screams.

I am a new man.

I snarl at her and bark.

I romp with joy in the bookish dark.

Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1979, 1980 by Mark Strand. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Source: Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)

For Monday, as you know, I would like you to write a poem. You may take inspiration for your poem from the Day of Silence videos or you can focus on your lists of fears and/or desires.

You're familiar with different forms - the form you choose is up to you (the length is up to you. 

 In order to write a poem that has depth, you may want to review the elements of poetry (below) and incorporate some into your poem.

Bottomline: Write a thoughtful poem with thoughtful choices. 
Be sure to post to your blog - and print your poem for MONDAY.


Metaphor: one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two.

"she is a fen of stagnant waters"- London (Wordsworth)

Simile: an explicit comparison between 2 different things, actions, or feelings, using the words 'as' or 'like'

"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" 

- Do not go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)

Personification: a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate things are referred to as if they were human.

"Press close bare-bosom'd night"
 "cool- breath'd earth!" - Song of Myself (Whitman)

Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines two contradicting terms in a compressed paradox

" O Death in Life..." - Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson)

Paradox: a statement or expression so surprisingly self contradictory as to provoke use into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true

"a novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons" - Song of Myself (Whitman)

Juxtaposition: placing two contrasting ideas side by side

"... blinding sight" - Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)

\
Pun: an expression that achieves emphasis or humour by contriving an ambiguity, two distinct meanings being suggested either by the same word or by 2 similar sounding words

"And every fair from fair sometimes declines" - Can I compare thee to a summer's Day (Shakespeare)

Theme: a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter; a recurring topic in a number of literary work

If you follow what God tells you to do, you will go to heaven- The Chimney Sweeper (Song of Innocence)

Tone: a vague critical term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work. Adjectives: romantic, nostalgic, ironic, sardonic, etc. See blog for list.

The Chimney Sweeper- Song of Experience- Dark Tone

Irony: a subtly humorous perception of inconsistency, in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance.

My Papa's Waltz (Roethke)- title is ironic because the dad's "dance" is very rough, unlike the waltz

Metonymy: a figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it

"... altar, sword, and pen" [*stand for church, army, and other scholars*] - London (Wordsworth)

Apostrophe: a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object

" 'Doth God exact day- labor, light denied?' I fondly asked" - When I considered how my light is spent (Milton)

Parallel structure/ parallelism: the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them

"And their sun does never shine,
 And their fields are bleak & bare,
 And their ways are fill'd with thorns" 

- Holy Thursday, Songs of Experience (Blake) 

Rhetorical Shift/ volta: a change in tone, attitude, speaker, subject etc. in a poem

"Rage, rage, Rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I Pray." 

- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan
[ Shift between "the light" and "And you, my father"]

Inversion: the reversal of the normally expected order of words.

said she 

End- stopped: brought to a pause at which the end of a verse coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax

I sat under the jacaranda, catching
the petals in my palm, enclosing them
until my fist was another lantern
hiding a small and bitter flame.- The Girl who loved the Sky by Anita Endrezze

Enjambment: the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.

Onomatopoeia the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
(Whack, fizz)

alliteration the repetition of the same sounds- usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables

"Whiskey, waltzing, wrist" "battered, beat, bed" 

"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke

consonance the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different

"Infant's tear... Marraige hearse" - London (blake)
[tear and hearse have the similar -ear spelling but are said in 2 different manners]

assonance repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

"returning chide" and "light denied"- When I consider how my light is spent (Milton)
or
Hit or miss

half rhyme/ slant rhyme a rhyme that doesnt exactly rhyme

"Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
they rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind" (pronounced Wined) - The Chimney Sweeper, Song of Innocence (Blake

end rhyme rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines

"Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead"  

"The Lamb" , Song of Innocence William Blake

Internal Rhyme: Two or more rhyme within the same line or verse

 I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores

Plus: Example of Scansion of Iambic Pentameter in Macbeth

Why Poetry Matters: Day of Silence Poem - Due Monday

For Monday's HWK - Click Here:   Why Poetry Matters: Day of Silence Poem - Due Monday: 

After Friday's class - see previous post.

I would like you to respond in verse.

WRITE a thoughtful POEM that incorporates words, thoughts, ideas from the videos from FRIDAY (or below).

You've also made a list of 100 fears and desires..
Perhaps, revisit those lists,
and see if there is any creative catalyst to a poem. 

BE SURE to POST your POEM to YOUR (individual) BLOG -

and PRINT a HARD COPY for Monday.

Consider the following titles - free to create your own: 

"Get over it"

"Kids Can Be Cruel"

"They were wrong."

"The Underdog"

"Stop it"

"This is who I am"

"My Closet"

"Be Real"

"Grenade"

"I love Nathan Lane"

"Be Authentic"

"Never Apologize"

"Your Story"

"Bust a Door Open"



What do you think would be a good title for a poem after hearing these videos?

Share title ideas: https://todaysmeet.com/DayofSilenceEA

If you haven't seen these TED Talks yet...

And you need a little courage to share your poem.

Watch these this weekend. We all have a story or a poem to share.