Today, we read a lot of poems by different authors, to give Johnise ideas for our project. Here are the links to the poems we read:<\/p>\n
Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Langston Hughes, Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n Eavan Boland, This Moment<\/a><\/p>\n Gwendolyn Brookes, We real cool<\/a><\/p>\n Linda Pastan, A New Poet<\/a><\/p>\n Walt Whitman, part of Song of Myself\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Wislawa Szymborska, Possibilities\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Johnise’s favorite was Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, because it is so confident. Emma’s favorites are Phenomenal Woman and Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins.<\/p>\n We decided that Johnise is going to write a Song of Herself poem, the way Walt Whitman, Maya Angelou,\u00a0Wislawa Szymborska, and some of the other poets above wrote poems expressing themselves, who they are, their likes and dislikes and ideas.<\/p>\n Johnise says: Hey, how’s it going?… Maya Angelou is a real inspiration for what I’m gonna do with my song, and Billy Collins saying poetry is poetry and you should like it for what it is instead of trying to turn it sideways to understand it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, we read a lot of poems by different authors, to give Johnise ideas for our project. Here are the links to the poems we read: Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry\u00a0 Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman\u00a0 Langston Hughes, Dreams Eavan Boland, … Continue reading