This week, we again worked on showing instead of telling, this time by adapting a classic childhood game — and an excellent activity for road trips! — into poetry. There’s a long tradition of childhood games in poetry: even Emily Dickinson wrote about hide-and-go-seek! We read Donald Justice’s “Twenty Questions,” and wrote [...]
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Will you rhyme? Will you not rhyme? Will you use imagery? Will you show or tell?
Posted in awesome poems, exercises, poems, showing instead of telling on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Abstract Made Real
Posted in awesome poems, exercises, poems, showing instead of telling on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some examples of the amazing work that’s going on in the Art of Writing Program! The first three examples are responses to the exercise we did in week two: we personified an abstract idea. These students did a great job showing the reader confusion, joy, and depression!
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Confusion
Always walking in the wrong [...]
We like March
Posted in audio recordings, exercises, poems on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello, and welcome to the Art of Writing Program’s corner of the Web! The Art of Writing Program began through a collaboration between the Sun Belt Writing Project, the Alabama Writers’ Forum, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill. We developed a series of school day, [...]
