Comments on: The Kids and a request http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-kids-and-a-request/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Annie Finch http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-kids-and-a-request/#comment-14956 Annie Finch Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:40:53 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3866#comment-14956 ps this is how the email came---looks like the last word or phrase was silent. ps this is how the email came—looks like the last word or phrase was silent.
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]]> By: Annie Finch http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-kids-and-a-request/#comment-14955 Annie Finch Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:40:11 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3866#comment-14955 Just got this announcement via email. Wow, this looks completely amazing Eileen. Wish I could be there. Sending all good thoughts for the event, Annie TOMORROW IS THE COLLECTION OF SILENCE WHERE: 155 St. & BWAY (DIA AT THE HISPANIC SOCIETY) WHEN: June 30, 7PM WHO: You will be shocked. 25 poets* and The Village Zendo, mezzo John Kelly, dancer Christine Elmo and five cohorts and a to-be-revealed number of kids from PS 4 & The Poetry Club directed by Christine Hou with a consult from Julie Patton and finally a life drawing group from Brooklyn known as F>A>R>T>S (Friends of the Fine Arts). You are encouraged to dress in your hot weather finery, and wander across the Audbon Plaza (where Audbon’s House once stood) and marvel at the power of silent art as it mingles its forces with the city. Afterwards, cool drinks & talk. *MONICA DE LA TORRE, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, STEPHANIE GRAY, TIM LIU, RACHEL ZOLF, JENNIFER BARTLETT, DANNY SNELSON, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, RENATO GÓMEZ, KIM ROSENFIELD, ANGELA JAEGER, JEREMY SIGLER, TIM PETERSON & LYDIA CORTES, NATHANIEL SIEGEL. PAOLO JAVIER, MARK BIBBINS, NICOLE COOLEY, LINDA GREGG, JEFFREY MCDANIEL, LILA ZEMBORAIN, TONYA FOSTER, RACHEL LEVITSKY, EMILY BEALL, CHRISTINE HOU, JULIE PATTON, STUDENTS FROM PS 4 AND EILEEN MYLES, PROJECT Just got this announcement via email. Wow, this looks completely amazing Eileen. Wish I could be there. Sending all good thoughts for the event, Annie

TOMORROW IS THE COLLECTION OF SILENCE
WHERE: 155 St. & BWAY (DIA AT THE HISPANIC SOCIETY)
WHEN: June 30, 7PM
WHO: You will be shocked. 25 poets* and The Village Zendo, mezzo John Kelly,
dancer Christine Elmo and five cohorts and a to-be-revealed number of kids from PS 4 & The Poetry Club directed by Christine Hou with a consult from Julie Patton and finally a life drawing group from Brooklyn known as F>A>R>T>S (Friends of the Fine Arts).

You are encouraged to dress in your hot weather finery, and wander across the Audbon Plaza (where Audbon’s House once stood) and marvel at the power of silent art as it mingles its forces with the city. Afterwards, cool drinks & talk.

*MONICA DE LA TORRE, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, STEPHANIE GRAY, TIM LIU, RACHEL ZOLF, JENNIFER BARTLETT, DANNY SNELSON, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, RENATO GÓMEZ, KIM ROSENFIELD, ANGELA JAEGER, JEREMY SIGLER, TIM PETERSON & LYDIA CORTES, NATHANIEL SIEGEL. PAOLO JAVIER, MARK BIBBINS, NICOLE COOLEY, LINDA GREGG, JEFFREY MCDANIEL, LILA ZEMBORAIN, TONYA FOSTER, RACHEL LEVITSKY, EMILY BEALL, CHRISTINE HOU, JULIE PATTON, STUDENTS FROM PS 4 AND EILEEN MYLES, PROJECT
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]]> By: John Oliver Simon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-kids-and-a-request/#comment-14815 John Oliver Simon Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:48:31 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3866#comment-14815 Here's a third-grader's poem, José Luis Eligio: Seguir a la abuela Seguí a mi abuela porque me iba a contar un secreto Cuando abrió la boca sólo le cayó polvo por los labios Following Grandmother I followed my grandmother because she was going to tell me a secret When she opened her mouth only dust fell from her lips Here’s a third-grader’s poem, José Luis Eligio:

Seguir a la abuela

Seguí
a mi abuela
porque
me iba
a contar
un secreto

Cuando abrió
la boca
sólo le cayó
polvo
por los labios

Following Grandmother

I followed
my grandmother
because
she was
going to tell me
a secret

When she opened
her mouth
only
dust
fell from her lips
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