http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/04/responding-to-violent-poems-in-the-classroom/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:26:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/04/responding-to-violent-poems-in-the-classroom/#comment-248 liz babcock Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:53:18 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=140#comment-248 It seems very hard for most to discriminate between experience, raw and unprocessed, and expression, which needs to be edited with some detachment, awareness of audience, point of view, etc. Maybe if students who comment were required to make that distinction as: the subject, or theme is...and the handling is,,,, It seems very hard for most to discriminate between experience, raw and unprocessed, and expression, which needs to be edited with some detachment, awareness of audience, point of view, etc. Maybe if students who comment were required to make that distinction as: the subject, or theme is…and the handling is,,,,

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/04/responding-to-violent-poems-in-the-classroom/#comment-247 Martha French Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:53:04 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=140#comment-247 thank you Emily Warn. so true! May I add: I also think this is not about the classroom or the act of writing at all, but about a country where a troubled kid, a kid who has a documented history of mental illness, can buy countless rounds of ammunition Without the NRA and what it has done to this country, this kid might very well have continued writing these creepy things, going back to his room and setting small fires and threatening girls. Instead, he accumulated his weapons for two months without any trouble. Perhaps the most trouble-free thing he ever did in his life. thank you Emily Warn. so true!
May I add: I also think this is not about the classroom or the act of writing at all, but about a country where a troubled kid, a kid who has a documented history of mental illness, can buy countless rounds of ammunition Without the NRA and what it has done to this country, this kid might very well have continued writing these creepy things, going back to his room and setting small fires and threatening girls. Instead, he accumulated his weapons for two months without any trouble. Perhaps the most trouble-free thing he ever did in his life.

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