Poetry

Discovering Poetics

February 10, 2011

“They’re so orange.” A selection of paints?  A pile of fabric swatches?  No.  This was Daughter #1’s comment about, of all things, a list of consonants in her poetics text.  We read aloud “b, c, d, f, g, h,. . . v, x, y, z,” and she said, “They’re so orange.” It might seem a [...]

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Wynken, Blynken, and G.I. Joe

November 19, 2010

I am a geek.  I know this because I can see it in my children’s eyes when I discover any sort of academic tidbit hiding in real life and attempt to point it out to them.  Sometimes they smirk or even glaze over a bit.  But sometimes they’re actually interested.  Just this weekend I discovered [...]

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