As always, we start with a kidney-pleasing pre-show stretch before powering up our podcasting exoskeletons. How does the Electric Company generate all that energy? Who is the mystery woman William’s parents paid off each week? Why is money so heavy? We answer all of these questions and st...
State the words, the best part of me, somewhere in your poem. Connell recommends giving students as much freedom as possible to express themselves. “While students might ask classmates to look over their poem, try not to intervene as it will keep each student’s work pure and authentic...
“It is an experience all of us have had at some time or another: We meet somebody at a party, know them to be familiar but do not know who they are; we recognize a melody, but fail to remember its name or when or where we have heard it before; we read a line of a poem, ...
“I struggled to make friends when I transferred schools,” you can show your emotions by writing, “I scanned the bustling school cafeteria, feeling more and more forlorn with each unfamiliar face. I found an empty table and ate my lunch alone...
Not only does this leave you feeling better overall, it also reduces one’s heart rate, and can even go a long way in physically calming you down. This is why many health experts recommend keeping an indoor plant, as the simple presence of it can help calm one down. Something that...
On Tanya's grave, her parents inscribed the final line from a poem she wrote when she was 17:"There is a place that I know of … where up above there flies a dove … and slowly as it turns to dawn/she parts her wings and then she's gone." ...
from draft writing on the page, to first oral performances, to second and further drafts, and thence to publication, might seem to indicate priority of written text over oral rendition, the relation between written and oral versions of the poem does not necessarily follow this temporal hierarchy...
You wouldn’t know it from her delivery of her poem at the inauguration, but up until a few years ago, she struggled to overcome her speech problem. For much of her life, including when she was still an undergraduate at Harvard, Gorman had trouble pronouncing the letter “R”.Her ...
Having your contest on multiple channels can increase the amount of exposure it gets. However, you also run the risk of having the same person enter into the contest multiple times, which can be hard to keep track of on the back end. ...
“With choral music, it's all about interpretation,” Dawson says. “What does each word mean? What does each note mean? We use the whole body; we're not just using our mouth, we're not just hearing. We can see the music in front of us, and we're reading it and we hear i...