Minutes from two weeks ago

January 26th, 2006
Present: Noah, Mike, Erin, Caroline
"Todd is forgiven for not coming because he had half his teeth ripped out." - Noah
Noah urged us all to rewrite some of our poems using other people's feedback and share on subsequent weeks.
"The guy downtown who sings to you is cool." - Mike

Mike went first:
Random Poem about Canada (this is the one he revised and read this past week)
Poem on Canada - Part 2 - The Coming of the White Man (I missed the author's name)
- A poem about a tract of land owned by the author's Aunt Hildegard who has never actually seen the land she owns.
- Some grat discussions on Canadian nationalism came out of both these poems

"Lucy Maud Montgomery writes bad poetry." - Mike

Noah
Elizabeth Bishop - A poem about Ezra pound in an insane asylum in the form of "This is the House that Jack Built"
"Read Ezra Pound's 'Asylum Cantos'." - Noah
None of his own

Caroline
Insomnia by Dana Gioia - depressing but rhyme is powerful at the end
Home - similar to Gioia's poem - excellent use of form

Erin
Free Verse (and Wishing I was Emily Dickenson) - amazing form
Good job on bringing in copies of your work so that everyone could look at it and edit it!!

"Oh ninja, my ninga." - Mike