"A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
_Oscar Wilde
Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Poetry Resources
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits
- Carl Sandburg
Poetry Terms:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/poetic-terms.html
How to Read a Poem
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ReadingPoetry.html#context
Magnet Poetry:
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=1
A Poetry Workshop with Karla Kuskin:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/karla_home.htm