Monthly Archives: November 2010

a mouth sewn shut

a mouth sewn shut

I want to begin making little videos of poems that I’ve done. Here is the first one. I wrote it when I was 21. It was for a friend who had put me up for awhile and I think I wrote it in the South … Read More

The Moth and the Thunderclap

First Take: I sing a song

I discovered my favorite American artist, Charles Burchfield, at the age of 16 while I was reading a Time Magazine in the library at Cornwall High where I used to have to wait for the bus to take me home because I lived way out … Read More

Sentences

ESL Lesson: The Rabbit and the Turtle: Activity Three: Either, neither, but, so, and too

Introduction: The first four activities in this lesson are pre-reading ones, and hopefully get students used to working together writing, talking and thinking about language and syntax. The teacher talk in this activity repeats itself about main verbs and helping verbs in compound sentences. The … Read More