Pensive Parky Pens a Poem
Here’s Parky back at home in our backyard garden, thinking about the World Parkinson Congress and jotting down his thoughts and feelings as he prepares to write a sonnet. […]
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Poetry
Parky Does Laurie Anderson!
Parky has always been attuned to the avant-garde, and he’s always loved Laurie Anderson! In anticipation of the upcoming World Parkinson Congress, he’s re-written Anderson’s “Sharkey’s Night” as “Parky’s Night,” which
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The Sun in Poetry
The Dream I have a dream to fill the golden sheath of a remembered day . . . . (Air heavy and massed and blue as the vapor of opium
Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry (as well as the next few weeks of entries) was
Heart, Awakened
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School is the title of a book written by Georgia Heard, an internationally famous poet and teacher. I studied poetry (and
Iambic Pentameter: If Not Now, When?
As an undergraduate lit major, I read a lot about iambic pentameter. Ten beats per line, alternating weak with strong: weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong Shakespeare’s sonnets
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The Sun in Poetry
The Afternoon Sun This room, how well I know it. Now they’re renting it, and the one next to it, as offices. The whole house has become an office building
Poetry in 1st Grade
In the past week I collected two startling and fun pages out of our 1st Grade students’ poetry journals. First, a poem by a boy who’s very much into writing
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Children Write Poetry: Upbeat Stuff
Like the previous post, these poems were written by students at the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, where I work as Professional Development Specialist. Almost all were written in
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Children Write Poetry: Death and Tragedy
These poems were written by students at the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, where I work as Professional Development Specialist. Almost all were written in the classroom in journals and
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