One of the authors whose work I posted got in touch with me! How cool is that? Look at the internet working the way it's supposed to for once, bringing people together with common interests! I was pretty excited about that, and I can't wait to tell my class.
For the record, the poems I posted were some of the ones I liked quite a lot. My initial reaction was, "Oh, why are they searching so basically? Why are their research skills so unrefined?" I resolved to work on our being savvier surfer-researchers at some point soon...
But then...
The poems they found, however haphazardly, were all pretty decent poems. Some were, in fact, excellent.
The lesson I learn in all of this? There is a world of online poetry out there that is vibrant, huge, and (like most things on the internet) filled with wide-ranging qualities of work. However, it exists "outside of the academy," which is a rather exciting poetic development.
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p.s. I told them. Now they know I have a blog (gulp).
I often wonder how large is the online text we read..this is a cool story. And the fact your students know you blog is cool too. I told my students, but sincerely doubt anyone ever looked it up. But do we really know who reads what we write and send out there?
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