Find your QuickMuse
April 30, 2008
It wouldn’t be right to say goodbye to Poetry Month without devoting one more post to a positively precious poetry resource. One of my personal favorites is QuickMuse, where contemporary poets step up to the plate to write a poem in 15 minutes or less.
Presenting your students with perfectly executed sonnets, masterpieces of Romantic philosophy, and works of epic length certainly has its instructional value, but when you ask them to write their own pieces after spending a unit studying pristine finished products, I imagine for many of them the blank page is hard to approach.
Help your students to loosen up by giving them a peek into the creative process. The QuickMuse poets are given a prompt – your students will definitely identify with the stress of assigned time-writing, and the “play-back” feature, which allows you to see the poem come together in real time, is just cool!
Please note: poets under pressure do not always produce G-rated material; make sure you preview anything you promote! –MARIELLE PRINCE
Related Stuff:
April is National Poetry Month
An old favorite: The Favorite Poem Project
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