This poem is from Marilyn Nelson’s outstanding Carver: A Life in Poems. How to keep their sweet potatoes from rotting Looking out of the front page, a wild-haired,īefore a blackboard of incomprehensible equations. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Please be sure to visit Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect for the Poetry Friday Roundup. They suggested that provocations are intended to “provoke thoughts, discussions,and questions.” This poem will do all of that and more. One of their suggestions was to share “provocations,” rather than prompts. How would I know which part belonged to me?Īmira Abdel-Aal and Shawna Coppola led a session on The Ed Collaborative this spring about ways to maximize student engagement with their writing. If I owned an unimaginable quantity of wealth, How much would she be worth by pound? By ounce? If someone at auction is worth her weight in gold, Today in America people were bought and sold:
This poem is from Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color (WordSong, 2007), which she co-authored with Elizabeth Alexander. Marilyn Nelson, former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, is the author of many powerful books of poetry for young people and has long been a favorite of mine. As I read, a link to Marilyn Nelson’s poetry came up.
I read many of the poems recommended, thinking I would find some to share with the my middle school students. Recently, The New York Times acknowledged the power of poetry to bring us “ solace, strength, and power” by asking many prominent poets, including Kwame Alexander, Joy Harjo, and Arthur Sze, what poets and poetry they have turned to during these tumultuous days.
Still, my heart hurts for our entire country. This week, at least, the bad news has been balanced by two momentous Supreme Court decisions. It no longer seems appropriate to say, “What a week!” It seems that every single day brings some new mind-boggling occurrence.
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