Poetry is in the air and everywhere!

   My poetry everywhere experience was very nice. These were my four favourite ones:
   1) A Boy Once Told Me, by Naomi Shihab Nye. Poetry from a child's mouth. She had the best presentation, I thought. The poem, put together from quotes from her toddler son, was very sweet and funny. Also, you could tell that she enjoyed sharing it with the audience, she laughed along with them in several parts and had a really unique way of telling it.
   2) Dust, by Dorianne Laux. A poem about working hard, and wanting to shut the world out sometimes. I think, from her biography at the side of the video and from what the narrator said, she's had a hard life, and this poem certainly reflects that.
   3) Lake Echo, Dear, by C.D. Wright. She has a way with words, and how she tells her poem. She has her own way of writing things, I really can't describe it.
   4) I Started Early, by Emily Dickinson. This was animated, and I really loved it. You could kinda relate to the poem, and the images in the movie just flowed so well with the words. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/dickinson.html
   Have a good weekend.

~National Poetry Month Wrap Up~

   All in all, I think National Poetry Month was a pretty good experience. I think that so far, it's one of my favourite things about PATH so far this year. I think what I liked most about poetry was that it always varied from author to author and from poem to poem. Unlike certain types of books, poetry isn't really all that predictable. You can get something that you think is one thing but it's really completely different. That's really cool.
    I'm definitely going to keep reading poetry now that NPM is over, but in smaller amounts. I think it's a great way to kinda get away from everyday life, and to just kinda kick back and relax. On a similar note to this, I also kinda was listening to Adele the other day, and I got to thinking about how a lot of song lyrics (though not all of them) can be poetry but set to music. Both music and poetry create images based off of the words in my mind while hearing it, so therefore I'm kinda considering some singers and/or bands as poets in their own right as well now.
   And last, but not least, did I gain any new favourite poets and poems? Why, yes, I suppose I did. I think the two I'm most fond of right now are Yeats and Connie Voisine. Both poets just kinda stuck in my mind. I like Yeats because of how he makes words flow, anad how they mix with each other (I hope that makes sense). As for Ms. Connie Voisine, well, she wrote a poem that I think will probably just stick with me for a long time, which is an acomplishment because unless I hear a poem over and over or really love it, that doesn't usually happen.
   So long, farewell. Happy May.