YAWP. “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” ~Walt Whitman
On our trip to Camp Long this week, we took some to write some poems. We’ve been reading and writing poetry since our last Camp Long trip, when Asher spontaniously wrote a beautiful poem about nature. This time we returned to intentionally stand tall and yell our poems to the trees and the leaves and the sun and the wind…
(Thank you Eric for video taping. Not everone wanted to read aloud, no matter how much we encouraged and some of the video was cut off but we tried to get everyone – we’ll be doing this again though…)
July 13, 2009
Michelle Taylor
2 responses to “Poetry Slam 2009! A Lesson on How to YAWP…”
debra thomas
July 13th, 2009 at 07:14
Thanks Eric for taping this! That was great to watch.
Debra Thomas
Donna Thomas
July 14th, 2009 at 07:36
I really enjoyed all the poets! It is great fun to see what my nephew, Jackson, is up to as well as his classmates. From Jackson’s Aunt Donna in Austin, Texas
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