Monthly Archives: November 2014

Isabel’s sonnet ConquistaDirector is about a filmmaker with the spirit of a conquistador.  It is basically about taking something someone else has, be it a script, book, actor’s voice, etc. and creating something out of it to make it her … Continue reading →

Tanner’s poem uses the Anglo-Saxon poetic line, meaning at least three of the words in each line start with the same sound.  The poem seems to be about a woman who because of her alcoholic ways, has been put away … Continue reading →

Richard’s poem “Before and After: West Africa mourning her children” is one of the best poems I have reviewed for this class so far.  It is about an African woman mourning the loss of her son, told backwards in a series … Continue reading →

Sienna’s poem “Lore’s Prayer—To Ella Yelich-O’Conner” is a pretty impressive poem. This is an epistle poem calling out to Lorde, a singer who rose to prominence last year with her hit single “Royals”. To full understand this poem I had … Continue reading →

Tanner’s poem “Complaint Poem” is about an terminated relationship. I don’t really understand who our players are in this poem but that is possibly beside the point. There is a tone of anger and frustration (being that this is a … Continue reading →

On Friday night I attended the Roger Reeves and Gary Jackson poetry reading.  This was the first poetry reading I had ever been too and I’m so glad I went.  The night started off with Jackson reading about five poems … Continue reading →

This event took place at the Charleston Library Society on lower King Street at 7pm on Friday, November 14th, 2014. I was really glad my English teacher mom Cheri and my boyfriend Justin got to join me. This reading was extremely … Continue reading →

This free form poem does not, to my knowledge fit into any of the poetic categories we have discussed so far and I think that is just great for Kadie’s poem 8! It is composed of 5 stanzas of 5 … Continue reading →

There are a lot of things working well in Sarah’s “Independence Day.” The speaker in the poem seems to be in a thoughtful state, daydreaming as she watches little kids play with sparklers and swim on Independence Day. The speaker … Continue reading →

Rachel opens her poem with a beautifully crafted line: “You drop words like bombs/and expect them to kill.” After setting the tone of the poem so simply in those first lines, she continues to write similar lines about verbal warfare … Continue reading →