GCAA Poetry Teamwork

"He's obviously the MVP of his conference, the OVC. So he's a really good player."

“Of course, I have to see the true masters work,” they exchanged each other’s poems.

"I finished and I had a lonely last four laps but she ran four and a half laps barely being able to run. I'm so impressed and inspired that she did that. I've never met her before. Like, I've never met this girl before. And isn't that just so amazing? That's an amazing moment. Regardless of the race and the result on the board, that's a moment that you're never, ever going to forget."

“I thought it was good, I thought it was really interesting to see kind of how you matched up around the state,” Pierce said.

“I think we did pretty good. We have a lot of new members to the team and so for a lot of students it was their first time like actually

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

“I have really enjoyed playing here at UWA and meeting lots of new players every year. I was very happy that I will be graduating with 5 girls that I came in as freshman with and don’t think I would be here today without

Listened to slam poetry, participated in the slam poetry group poem making process, created my own slam poems, and performed my own slam poems; sharpen skills in group working and social communications.

“In 2001 Collins was named poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, a post he held for two years. In that capacity he devised and promoted an initiative called Poetry 180, intended to help high-school students connect with and find pleasure in poetry” (Cunningham).

“’ But this is merely a negative definition of the value of education’” (23-24). Mark Halliday wrote “The Value of Education” from a first person standpoint. The introduction and the use of “I” demonstrates the poem is about the speaker. Likewise, the speaker uses imagery, self-recognition, and his own personal thoughts throughout the poem. He goes on throughout the poem stating external confrontations he is not doing because he is in the library receiving an education and reading books. With this in mind, the speaker goes on to convey images in your head to show a realization of things he could be doing if he were not in the library getting an education.

Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. In my own personal opinion, communication most definately changes us, and our life. Without communication, We wouldnt be able to talk to and understand our children or whats going on in their life, which could cause many behavioral and emotional problems. Another reason communication changes us, is back in the olddays people used to use horses and telographs to communicate which made it very difficult to get a message across. Now we have the privilage to use social media and technology which makes communication very easy and much faster.

Have you ever felt like you were born to do something? Since I was born I felt like I was born to play baseball, but after that I would love to be a broadcaster. That is why I have chosen to analyze “The Broadcaster’s Poem” by Alden Nowlan. Analyzing a poem is not an easy thing to accomplish for me. As I very rarely analyze anything I read, but you should try everything once.

“Sure,” I said just thinking about my old dog and how I would ride on her when I was really young and weighed less than her. Her name was Samantha, Sam. I loved her more than anything even more than my parents. When we had to put her down I was heart broken. I would never feel the way I felt with her ever again. Even just thinking of her makes me sad now, until I saw her. I stepped out of my car thinking about Sam. “Ashley, do you ever think of Sam,” I said without getting teary eyed.

Some of the poems and essays I have read during this class were relatable to me. Being away from college, I have struggled with not being at home. I have become a different person when I am at school, but when I am home, I feel like I am my normal self again. Some of these authors of the poems and essays that I have read throughout this class has struggled with being somewhere where they don’t belong and that they are someone else when they are not home. Unlike the other poems and essays we have read throughout the course. I enjoyed reading the ones about “home” because I actually understood what they are going through and that I can relate. Some of these poems and essays include “Going Home” by Maurice Kenny, Postcard from Kashmir”, by Agha Shahid Ali, “Returning” by Elias Miguel Munoz and “Hometown” by Luis Cabalquinto. All of these poems deal with duality.