DOCUMENT RESUME ED 432 773 CS 216 820 TITLE Poetry Heaven: Teacher's Guide. The 1996 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. INSTITUTION Thirteen WNET, New York, NY. SPONS AGENCY Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ. PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 48p.; Photographs may not reproduce clearly. AVAILABLE FROM Poetry Heaven Teacher's Guide, P.O. Box 245, Little Falls, NJ 07424-0245. Accompanying VHS videotape recordings available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences; Tel: 800-257-5126 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.films.com PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Class Activities; *Creative Writing; Cultural Enrichment; High Schools; *Oral Interpretation; *Poetry; *Poets IDENTIFIERS *Contemporary Literature; *Geraldine R Dodge Foundation; Oral Presentations ABSTRACT This teaching guide packet is designed to accompany a 3-part television series, "Poetry Heaven," which captures many of the brightest and most memorable moments of the 1996 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The series presented in the packet features 18 poets whose personalities, voices, and points of view reflect the power and diversity of contemporary poetry. While the guide in the packet is intended to be used with the series, it can also serve teachers as a free-standing resource for the study of contemporary poetry. Included are: classroom cards, including 13 poet cards and 1 panel/conversation card (featuring poems, poet's statements, biographical notes, photographs, discussion questions, and suggested activities); an outline of each program which identifies featured poets and events; a time grid which provides timed locations for poems and panel/conversations in the TV series; advice to young poets; a selected bibliography; and suggestions for building a core high school poetry collection. Each program in the series is 60 minutes long and readings of individual poems are continuous. Recommendations for the teacher are: preview the program selected for discussion; have students watch the whole program on air or show segments in class; hand out photocopies of the classroom cards; discuss what has been watched; and have students do the activities. 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Festival audiences visit dozens of poetry-centered events readings, discussions, conversations, workshopsat site throughout historic Waterloo Village in northern New Jersey. ;For more information visit the Festiyarwebsite at www.grdodge.org/poetry or write to lioetry!Festival, Geraldine R. ,dge Foundation, 163 Madison Avente, P.O.B. 1239, Morristrn, NJ 07962-1239. 1998 Festival September 24, 226 & 27 "4 A tv . ,0011 It T J/j I ilk POETRY HEAVEN Part 1 POETRY REAON Part4l- POETRY HEAVEN Part 3 Robert Hass: "Forty Something" Allen Ginsberg: excerpts from: Louis Jenkins: "Appointed Rounds" and translations of haiku by William Blake's 'The Tiger," "Do the and 'Too Much Snow" Kobayashi Issa Meditation Rock," and "Ballad of the Hal Sirowitz: "Chopped-Off Arm" Skeletons" Mark Doty: "Golden Retrievals" Philip Levine: "Monsieur Degas Thyllas Moss: from "Poem for my Le Thl Diem Thuy: "Big girl, Little Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Mothers and Other Makers of girl" Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942," Asafetida" and "A Nagging Poetry an4History: Robert Hass, "You Can Have It," and "Coming Close" Misunderstanding" Louis Jenkins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry and Work: Louis Jenkins, Pattiann Rogers: "The Greatest and Li-Young Lee Philip Levine, and Yusef Grandeur" and "The Hummingbird: Yusef Komunyakaa: from "History Komunyakaa A Seduction" Lesson"; Li-Young Lee: Yusef Komunyakaa: "Believing in Iron" "The Interrogation" Carol Muske: "Talk Show" and an Joy Harjo: "For Anna Mae Pictou excerpt from "An Octave Above Robert Hass: from "Regalia for a Aquash ..." Black Hat Dancer" Thunder" ("The Dakota in her Robert Creeley: "I Know a Man" Speech") Mark Doty: "Michael's Dream" and "So There" and "Charlie Howard's Descent" Women and Poetry: Brenda A Shared Life of Poetry: Robert Hillman, Thyllas Moss, Carol Marie Howe: "Sixth Grade" and Hass and Brenda Hillman Muske, and Pattlann Rogers "What the Living Do" Brenda Hillman: "Black Series" Gerald Stern: from Section VIII of Yusef Komunyakaa: "You and I Brenda Hillman: "Time Problem" "Hot Dog" Are Disappearing," "Thanks" and jean Valentine: 'To a Young Poet" Yehuda Amichal: "God Takes Pity "Facing It" on Kindergarten Children," "1924," Advice to Young Poets/New Jersey and "Little Ruth" High School Poetry Winners: Philip Levine, (advice), Helen Yuton Lee, Allen Ginsberg (advice), Regina Laba, Louis Jenkins (advice), Eireann Corrigan, Benjamin Paloff, Tammara Lindsay F T `I 1 '11 frc [ F 44; , L "r V 1.. et ..._- ,-- ..........t r",4 ' . 4 ' .1.' .::.., . ,...,.... ...:0-4: ,...3' .-'-i - - s 'at. 1 - -e lo.i' -. [ ....sty.? . ,... e l ,3 ..,..." ,,, . -._, r : - . -,.... tr--- - - - : - , '., MARK DOTY. `-, t... 2,4,4 t si k H. I L L 84 A N -, .-.:) .rpon't quit too soon '",44, -- _ "Look:closely. 1 .,When yot are ini st,-:;;;P., .1,Thiiiikon all levels. -.- v ,.. .41- . 4.4', ".4 " ---On a piece ofiwn , ; ,- , ., Revise toward strangeness. ...-. .-114...irk-,.. rt V . ,---7, '': ,Dtiiklie." i -.. .. ' . r .- , EA N; VA L EN T 1 NE: ..-.- ,... -1-...., Poetry Heaven Part . --tr_VP, i f yi. Borri in Chicago in 1934, lean Valentine has taught at ; vs, ,major colleges and universities throughan the North'easi, - ."- ,117:*.( including Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, -., ..--Swarthmore College, and Yale University She now lives 1-14.0. a Ireland - r r. E?(IKI NS To a Young Poet. k twice: Read for Michael Klein everything you can . - get-your hands on." Thisicinuary night at ten below I wish you ALLEN CTINSBERCT true desire, like a rose to stand ,-"Learn some foim in your chest Veined Bloom of non-theistic meditation practice... ,,,' J Let you be. Reflected in the train window, Learn music." li' i inside a thousand circles of public darkness, gir--,-k4. desire, a round red star And desire again, a foliating wand, and you the Jack of Wands. t The round red rose of sleep in bloom. This ri.:: .51j6 "What you need to true desire, it lets you be'. aa learn is patience." -ir§ays, "Ng money here." 441444. ; AM.,- . ."11E, ' ev. Stddeos.ettEtaestet 'r". shadow, cinnamon. 'To a Young Poet" by Iran Valentine From THE RIVER AT WOE( .. Copybyht 0 1992 1711 Mon Vohniine RcprInted by perrMfon of Alice fames gosh i'EFLUDAAMICHAI . * "Write only as long as - you want to write and ROBERT HASS need to write." "If yOu fall in love with poetry, read a lot and write a lot." aiso "&e, 404 u 356 Westm58thk Street New `larkNY rosh a. 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