Still remembering that this month is National Poetry month, as I mentioned a few days ago. Just received in the mail yesterday How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
Did you know that poetry can be recited in ASL (American Sign Language) or other sign languages? When this is done, it really is “poetry in motion” (sorry if this is a bad cliche). Here is a link to some NTID students performing haiku poetry in sign language. The parent website does not really have a good way to find or get to more examples, unfortunately. This is from the year 2005. Click on the flag icons there to see the videos.
Any new poetry or poets you have discovered yet 
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my kids and I are reading through a couple of poetry anthologies this year. We’ve read through a bunch of Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman. We’ll finish with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. My favorite of that bunch was Carl Sandburg, by far. None of us are fans of Poe.
I recently read a collection from Billy Collins. He’s modern, writing now. I enjoyed that.
I’m more of a free-form fan than traditional rhyme and meter.
I guess I like writing that way myself…
blessings!
Twitter: ValerieAndBooks
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Kristy, I’m impressed at what you are teaching the kids. And, I’ve forgotten the difference between “rhyme and meter” and “free-form” and several other styles regarding poetry–I’m hoping to be more familiar by the end of the month
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Great to see the ASL haiku here.
I was privilged to be involved with the first ever BSL Haiku Festival in the U.K. in conjunction with Bristol University, and was a judge, as well as organising a haiku writing walk (ginko) and even presented my own Basho Prize. The good thing about this was that some scientist said he would only recognise sign language if a haiku could be created, well we proved that over and over again.
all my best,
Alan
Twitter: ValerieAndBooks
says:
Alan, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. I took a look at your website and it’s very informative about haiku!
I just got that Hirsch book at the library! I’m hoping to read it before it’s due again (I’ve started a few books I need to finish first…)
And I was goign to say that I love ASL! It’s so beautiful to watch, I think it always (usually) looks like poetry.