Anika R's SAS Blog (2015-22)

What’s one thing you might do differently in the next version of this poem? What’s something you’ll do differently with the next piece you write?  The poetry writing/revising process is still very new to me, so I was really glad to get some very direct and purposeful feedback during our workshops. Although it seems silly to think about now, I guess I didn't realize that I wrote the poem's content in the way I did because I already knew what the poem was about and that the audience might not understand the poem because of that. For example, I started the poem with "After walking away from the live performer, I saw the lady sit...", and this seemed to go misunderstood by a lot of people. Ella and a few others mentioned that the 'lady' and 'live performer' sound like the same person, which they aren't. I think I'll need to focus on clarifying the content first before editing the language or similie.  I was very surprised that no one brought up the...

Write a blog post in which you discuss how your thinking has changed about poetry in the last few weeks. What is the most important insight you have gained? Poetry has always been really important to me. Writing that out feels cheesy, but it's true. My mom used to write poetry, which my grandfather used to bind into small books for her to look back on later, and she used to read me poems all the time when I was younger. I always thoroughly enjoyed poetry units in younger grades, so I was really looking forward to starting this year with something I could look forward to.  This poetry unit has been very different so far, mostly because we're focusing less on technicalities/devices (like diction, rhyme, alliteration, etc) and more on the actual content of the poem and it's significance (to the author and the reader). I didn't know how to feel about this focus at first, since I don't usually think about how or what I'm writing when I write poetry, but I'm defin...

Click here if embedded video is not working:  https://youtu.be/dTBjWzKTM9c Edit, 9/5/2020: I realize I misunderstood the prompt when making this video. Things that geek out over include:  Star Wars, DC Comics, Tron, Red vs Blue (Halo, kinda), 70s SciFi art (Retro Futurism),  art & animation , Tolkien (LotR & the Hobbit), Daft Punk & other musical storytellers , occasionally Marvel comics, Star Trek, and more.