Posts Tagged ‘hugh ogden’
Poetry memorization need not be boring or a waste of time. I have used it to make a woman swoon (possibly) and enact one of my greatest pranks of all time against a fellow teacher.
Mike Chasar of Poetry Magazine writes about the lost art of poetry memorization. While it’s true that the academic demand to memorize poetry has all but disappeared from the American school system, I’m happy to report that this dying art remains alive and well in tiny corners of the world, including several of my own.…
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My friend, Tony, was included in a recent email that I signed with the valediction: Warmly, Matt Tony’s response: I must say the “Warmly, Matt” doesn’t seem like you. He’s right. Joan Acocella of The New Yorker recently wrote a piece on the various valedictions and said she never uses “Warmly” because it sounds too…
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