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.