Workshop on Spoken Word

14Dec10

Today I did a spoken word workshop with a high school English class! I had a really good time – it combined my two biggest loves: art and teaching. (I don’t usually write real blog posts on this blog but bear with me, please.)

If you are a student from that class, I’d like to apologize either to you or your parents (or both) for suggesting The The Impotence of Proofreading by Taylor Mali on your handout. I thought I had suggested a different poem by him! That poem is very good and very funny, but very inappropriate in subject matter so I hope if you look it up you’ll enjoy it for what it is (as I said, it’s a very good and very funny poem), but be mature about it and understand that it’s a bit … dirty.

Anyway, this is why you (read: I) should triple-check your (my) handouts!

Also, for students of that class (or anyone else interested, really): If you want feedback or encouragement or anything like that, feel free to contact me. If you comment on this or any of my other blog posts and include your email address for notifications (it shouldn’t be publicized, but I get it as the owner of this blog), I can email you back and I will be more than happy to give you advice!

Happy writing! :)