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Unleash Creativity Part 5: Enter Windows Instead of Doors [by Tess Callahan]
Posted Dec 11, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Unleash Creativity Part 4: Limit your Palette [by Tess Callahan]
Posted Dec 10, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you for these kind comments. Naturally, when my students do emulation exercises, they always include "After (insert poet's name)..." in the title to credit the source of inspiration. We do fixed verse as well, villanelles, sestinas, etc. Both the emulations and the form poetry give the flailing new poet scaffolding on which to hang their own images and ideas. It's akin to the young artist learning to mix colors or a musician practicing scales. We all stand on the shoulders of others, yes? Thank you, BAP, for this chance to share.
Unleash Creativity Part 2: Emulate the Masters [by Tess Callahan]
For my students’ first poetry assignment this year, I distributed a dozen past issues of BEST AMERICAN POETRY along with other anthologies snatched from my shelf and asked them to browse through and settle on a poem that caught their eye, one whose style or cadence made them envious, a poem the...
Unleash Creativity Part 3: Impose Time Constraints [by Tess Callahan]
Posted Dec 9, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Unleash Creativity Part 2: Emulate the Masters [by Tess Callahan]
Posted Dec 8, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Unleash Creativity Part 1: Give Students Chains to Break [by Tess Callahan]
Posted Dec 7, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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I didn't think this was possible, Jim, but you've actually made me want to open an algebra book so I can better understand what you mean about seeing problems in reverse.
Your comment about music, "what is not heard is as important as what is," reminds me of another line from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets:
"And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea."
Thanks, Jim!
The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness (by Tess Callahan)
Even before I began writing, I loved to draw and paint. Although I enjoyed it, I never considered it as a profession. Maybe I was afraid of the impracticality, or like my character, Oliver, (in my novel April & Oliver), I was simply afraid. Accessing one’s own creative power can be terrifying...
Amazing! My kids and I went to a llama/alpaca sheep sheering day recently. The speed and deftness of the shearers was impressive. And yes, the scrawny, naked looking animals did seem much happier after the fact!
"Shearing Day" (by Laura Orem)
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full. One for the master, one for the dame, And one for the little boy who lives down the lane. Seems like a lot of wool for one sheep, but you'd be surprised. This week, Nathan, our shearer, came to give Ike and Izzy thei...
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