Pictures

If anyone would like me to email a specific picture to them, please do not hesitate to contact me. traceyanne81@yahoo.com 

You can also click on the image you like to view it in its full version, and then right-click to save it to your computer. :)

Poem.

I got sentimental tonight. I admit it. I took my ice cream from J.P. Licks and I went and sat in front of Widener and then I wrote something while I was thinking about our time here. I am going to miss this place!

<3 Tracey

Wanna Skype?

I'm working on my paper (cough, cough) but I really want to throw this out to the world before I forget, before we all leave, before we all return to our various lands of educational happiness: LET'S SKYPE!

It's free. It's fun. It's fabulous!

I'd love to work with one of your classes. Even if it's on one poem, or one short story, or even if you just want your kids to say "hey" to mine, let's make some cross-country-collaboration magic happen!

Jenni

PUNK'D BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Today's "Pearls Before Swine," courtesy of my Dad

The Gutenberg Project

On Project Gutenberg's website, you can download over 33,000 full-text, free e-Books for any digital reader or computer. Many of these titles might be relevant to your research now-- I'm finding the Old/New Testament useful because it's searchable for keywords on my Mac and I'm looking for passages relevant to my Emily Dickinson research. There's also Shakespeare's complete works, among tons of others.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 

1966 Facsimile edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)

1966 Facsimile edition of the 1855 first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Eakins-Press-facsimile/dp/B001HBUVJG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280167720&sr=8-4

Widener family home...

Saw this on the yahoo front page today and thought you might be interested in it...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_re_us/us_faded_mansion


--Jenni

Whitman Archive

On The Whitman Archive website, you can view every edition published of Leaves of Grass during Whitman's lifetime. There are also e-texts, information, and page images of each edition, most notably the 1855 first edition (we saw one at the Houghton Library last week). Another page shows his manuscripts, notebooks from the Library of Congress, and some helpful guides.  Also, reviews & criticism, resources (including ideas for lesson plans), and images of Whitman and the recording we heard in the poetry room. The conditions and terms of use are only for publication, so these tools are available for our use as teachers in our classrooms. I'm hoping to use them to simulate the experience we've had at Harvard with my students.

Whitman Assignment? & etc.

Since I missed class Thursday, I'm wondering if anyone can send me their notes on the seminar?

Also, anyone care to explain the Whitman assignment to me?

Much obliged <3

Tracey
traceyanne81@yahoo.co

Exhibit A

There are no words.

Very Punny

Joel: Isn't Milton making a pun on twitching?
Helen: Don't go there.
Milton: She's right, I'm not funny like that.

Stopping by death on a rainy afternoon

This is my blog... Death stopped for this little critter in emily dickinson's garden

http://harvardyarddog.blogspot.com/2010/07/emily-dickinson-as-flower-looming-over.html

OMG

Look what I found: a website with videos of Helen lecturing on Yeats' "Among School Children": a total of 48 minutes which look (at first glance) to be similar to what we heard today:

1. Introduction to the Poem (3:15)

2. Three Greek Philosophers (6:00)

3. Yeats' Philosophical Thoughts (6:08)

4. Reading of Stanzas I through IV (9:23)

5. Reading of Stanzas V through VII (7:31)

6. Reading of Stanza VIII (12:51)

7. Conclusion (1:46)

8. Student's Comments on Professor Vendler (1:45)

Look homeward, angels

I find it useful to have someone who knows what the hell he's saying read Milton to me. So here is a link to someone doing just that:

http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/milton-lycidas-read-by-tom-obedlam/

It takes about ten minutes to hear the whole thing.

Cheers!!
Liz

Facebook

Hi everyone,

I'm getting sentimental already. Let's hook up on Facebook!!! (No, seriously.) Look for me under 'Tracey Poole' or my email address traceyanne81@yahoo.com. Chris, Ayers, Matt and I are already Facebook friends, aren't you jealous?!?

http://www.facebook.com/tracey.poole

the fish

Hey yall,

Here is that marianne moore poem the fish.
Analysis of the grave was very helpful.
psst... moore is considered a brooklyn poet.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish-6/

Books on Teaching w/ Web 2.0

This is Tracey again.

These are some great books I've read through my work with the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project. They all address the use of technology in the classroom beyond just computers and PowerPoints.

Troy Hicks The Digital Writing Workshop

Will Richardson Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts

and my personal favorite, William Kist The Socially Networked Classroom

You can see how the SJVWP is attempting to encourage the use of Web 2.0 technology in the central valley of California on our Ning: www.sanjoaquinvalleywritingproject.ning.com

Check out my SJVWP Ning blog to see my notes on Kist's book here.

Registered Users/Writers

I promise I'm not taking over the blog--especially since, until today, I have been but a faithful lurker. But I thought it might be nice if we had our own login instead of a communal one.

I am happy to set this up. Just leave a comment on this post with your name and I'll send the info to your email on our distribution list.

Or, if you'd like to take care of it yourself, log in with the communal log in, go to Dashboard, then....um...something else...possibly "Permissions" and add your email. :)

Jenni

Links from Tracey

Julie and I (Tracey) were talking about teaching yearbook today, and two of my favorite (free!) photo editing resources came up. I promised her I'd share them here, even though they're SO off topic!

Pixlr (free web-based, Photoshop-like tool) http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Picasa (free Google software) http://www.picasa.google.com

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For anyone who wants to see/read my blog on our July at Harvard that I'm writing for my friends, family and colleagues, you can access it here: http://www.traceyatharvard.blogspot.com

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If you're wondering what I'm always giggling to myself during breaks about, you can look at these sites:

http://icanhascheezburger.com

http://failblog.org

http://thereifixedit.com

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The best place(s) ever to find awesome one-day deals:

http://www.woot.com

http://shirt.woot.com

http://kids.woot.com

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The best (and most original) blogging site on the web, where I've written daily (and anonymously) since 1999:

http://www.opendiary.com

Dickinson Homestead Pictures

Frost Artifact Pictures

Group Pictures

L'allegro for tomorrow

Hey y'all,

I was having some trouble reading the poem aloud because of all the Greek names, so I did a little search and found an audio recording. Not bad!

http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/milton-lallegro-read-by-tom-obedlam/

Aux armes, citoyens! See you tomorrow!

Liz

Hey there, all.

Here are some of the poems we've mentioned recently:

Burnt Norton, from T.S. Eliot:

http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/norton.html

and here's the Hopkins poem called "The Beginning of the End"

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=72168279

See you all bright & early to visit Miss Emily's house.

Ayres

a draft of Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"

Hey there, all.

I want to share something very cool that one of my colleagues shared with me a couple of years ago: one of Elizabeth Bishop's early drafts for "One Art." I'm not sure how my colleague came by this--she herself is a poet, and a long-time teacher of poetry, so maybe there's a secret handshake she employed--but in the end I'm not sure I care where it came from. I love the idea of asking why it went from this form to the villanelle--what, Helen might say, it had to gain from including so much repetition. Thoughts? See you at lunch.

Ayres

HOW TO LOSE THINGS /? THE GIFT OF LOSING THINGS?

One might begin by losing one’s reading glasses

oh 2 or 3 times a day – or one’s favorite pen.

THE ART OF LOSING THINGS

One thing to do is to begin by “mislaying”.

Mostly, one begins by “mislaying”:

keys, reading-glasses, fountain pens

- these are almost too easy to be mentioned,

and “mislaying” means that they usually turn up

in the most obvious place, although when one

is making progress, the places grow more unlikely

- This is by way of introduction. I really

want to introduce myself - I am such a

fantastically good at losing things

I think everyone shd. profit from my experiences.

You may find it hard to believe, but I have actually lost

I mean lost, and forever, two whole houses,

one a very big one. A third house, also big, is

at present, I think, “mislaid” – but

maybe it’s lost, too. I won’t know for sure for sometime.

I have lost one long peninsula and one island.

I have lost – it can never be has never been found –

a small-sized town on that same island.

I’ve lost smaller bits of geography, like and many smaller bits of geography or so

a splendid beach , and a good-sized bay.

Two whole cities, two of the

world’s biggest cities (two of the most beautiful

although that’s beside the point)

A piece of one continent –

and one entire continent. All gone, gone forever and ever.

One might think this would have prepared me

for losing one average-sized not especially---------- exceptionally

beautiful or dazzlingly intelligent person

(except for blue eyes) (only the eyes were exceptionally beautiful and

but it doesn’t seem to have, at all… the hands looked intelligent)

the fine hands

a good piece of one continent

and another continent – the whole damned thing!

He who loseth his life, etc. – but he who

loses his love – never, no never never never again -

Yeats interactive exhibit from the National Library of Ireland

Dan was talking about this at lunch today--the online virtual recreation of an extensive Yeats exhibit at the National Library of Ireland:
http://www.nli.ie/yeats/

some poems we've (briefly) mentioned

Hey there, all.

Ok, well, the amazing depth of our discussions has precluded discussion of some poems--and now I'm going to go and add MORE poems to the list. I'm including links to these, too:

1. "Moonrise," the Hopkins poem that Helen recited for us today:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moonrise/

2. "To Eva Descending the Stair," which is a Sylvia Plath villanelle:

http://ssmoking-mirror.livejournal.com/416.html

3. "The Skylight," which is a beautiful Seamus Heaney sonnet:

http://thisthingofdarkness.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/poem-the-skylight/

Harvard Lib. Digital Collections

The Harvard Library Digital Collections Site isn't particularly relevant to poetry, but it's interesting--lots of interesting images--digitized images of medieval Books of Hours; Russian theater designs; Tehran propaganda murals; 19th century photos...
http://hcl.harvard.edu/collections/digital_collections/

LABELS

Julie had a good idea: when you post something, LABEL IT (type a simple descriptor in the little box at the bottom of the post window)-- that way we'll have a better-organized concordance of what's in here. So far I've labeled stuff "books," "Harvard Resources," etc.-- but if it doesn't fit in a category someone else made up, you can make up your own. You can cross-list posts easily: just type in more than one label.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

An awesome thing I found today when messing around in the e-research part of the Harvard Library online (you have to log in with your ID number and password): a whole searchable and browse-able collection of underground and independent comics and graphic novels. How are we going to get any sleep while we're here?
http://comx.alexanderstreet.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/

Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life (Brett Lott)

This book was recommended yesterday in class-- something about an essay on the importance of articles (a, the)... here's a link to some of it online from Google.

Blog Ideas

Hey everybody,

This morning at breakfast a few of us were talking about creating a forum in which we could share all these poems and teaching ideas and articles and whatnot that have already come up, in class and in outside conversations. We thought setting up a blog would be a good idea.

So this is it. And I hope it will work as a shared thing-- in other words, we can all log in and create blog posts and edit the blog-- not just comment on posts I make. I don't want necessarily want to be the editor; many of you are more accomplished bloggers. Along those lines: feel FREE to format this blog differently, add gadgets, etc. I just set this up in 10 minutes, and will take NO offense!

So I created a gmail account we can all access. The address is harvardpoetry@gmail.com; the password is the first line of Prufrock, with no caps or punctuation. So any of us can log in to blogger (www.blogger.com) with that username (the gmail address) and that password, and post whatever you want-- a poem, a query, an idea for an outing-- whatever!

Enjoy!