{"id":821,"date":"2016-03-06T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2016-03-06T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:44:17","slug":"poetry-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2016\/03\/06\/poetry-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: poetry from the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching a literature tutorial this spring, and in our final class on poetry, I made my students read some speculative poetry. I wanted them to see that poetry can involve any genre, and be more than just the classic (and wonderful!) stuff we&#8217;ve been reading. So here are the poems from newer writers that I used in class: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stonetelling.com\/issue6-dec2011\/velazquez-gasgiants.html\">Gas Giants<\/a> by Maria Velazquez, in Issue 6 (&#8220;Catalyst&#8221;) of <em>Stone Telling<\/em>. This poem is so powerful, with its space imagery and family issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inkscrawl.net\/issue3-april2012\/taylor-sarcophagus.html\">Sarcophagus<\/a>, by N. E. Taylor, in Issue 3 of <em>inkscrawl<\/em>. So much story and implied emotion in two lines! Amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130923\/ness-p.shtml\">The Loss<\/a>, by Mari Ness, in <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>, 2013. Bird-girls and the feeling of flight. Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goblinfruit.net\/2013\/spring\/poems\/?poem=april\">April<\/a>, by Nita Sembrowich, in the Spring 2013 issue of <em>Goblin Fruit<\/em>. Starting as a delicate evocation of spring, the last two lines really make this poem for me.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using a story by Ken Liu and one by Amal El-Mohtar in my teaching, too. Because yay for literary SFF. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching a literature tutorial this spring, and in our final class on poetry, I made my students read some speculative poetry. I wanted them to see that poetry can involve any genre, and be more than just the classic (and wonderful!) stuff we&#8217;ve been reading. So here are the poems from newer writers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[36,66,31,37,13],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-poetry","tag-goblin-fruit","tag-inkscrawl","tag-recs","tag-stone-telling","tag-strange-horizons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}