Poetry Composition Through Instruction
By LAURIE COSKEYJULY 1, 20196:30 AM Jim Hornsby Moreno is on a quest to find his America. On that journey he taught a literacy through poetry class to young adults at San Diego Continuing Education who had experienced more trauma at young ages than any person should see in a lifetime. Through his style of being…
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By Sherman Alexie I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shallafter an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Damand topples it. I am told by many of you that I must forgiveand so I shall after the floodwaters burst each successive damdownriver from the Grand…
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By Theodore Roethke I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Of those…
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By Theodore Roethke In a dark time, the eye begins to see,I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;I hear my echo in the echoing woodA lord of nature weeping to a tree.I live between the heron and the wren,Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What’s madness but nobility of soulAt odds…
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By Duane Niatum aven steals your name for an autumn joke:buries you along with it underthe thickest hemlock known to chipmunks.Too bad you were awake for the event.He accuses you of asking allthe wrong questions over and over.You attempt revolt to prove his medicinewheel is cracked and filling up its own pit. He hollers your…
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By Naomi Shihab Nye Because the eye has a short shadow orit is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarterbut you need your own secret? If mystery was never your friend? If one way could satisfy the infinite heart of the heavens? If you liked the king on his…
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by Naomi Shihab Nye Tiny keyboard bearing the massive reverie of the past—press one button, we’re carried away on a country road,marching with saints, leaving the Red River Valley…here is every holiday you hated, every hard time,each steamy summer wish. You closed your eyesin the wooden stairwell, leaning your head against the wall,knowing a bigger…
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Jim has performed with The Three Deuces, a three art ensemble with jazz trumpeter Mitch Manker and dancer Michael Tompkins. He authored Dancing in Dissent: Poetry For Activism (Dolphin Calling Press, 2007). As Jim Hornsby he serves on the advisory board of the Poetic…
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Class 1: The Muse and the Mystics: The Poetry of Rumi and the Ecstatic Makers Who or what is this friend called Muse? How close does she live to the soul? What did Rumi (1207), Hafez (1326), and Kabir (1440) know and write about 500 to 800 years ago that serve as a language compass,…
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Class 2: Writings From Turtle Island: The Best of Native American Poetry (To be added soon) How can we describe Native American poetry, nee Indigenous verse? Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry calls it the poetry of “historic witness”. For the purposes of this class we can go deeper into the oral tradition of any indigenous…
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