Showing posts with label Poetry in Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry in Action. Show all posts

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Filling the Well: Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Joyce, and Brandon Oldenburg

 
 
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"
(Oscar winner for best animated short 2012)
Written by William Joyce
Directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
 

Thank you for coming along on my Filling the Well journey for National Poetry Month. I've appreciated the company, as well as all the comments, emails, and poems these posts inspired! I hope you are feeling refreshed and have found something beautiful, interesting, joyful, or curious to take with you. If you missed or would like to revisit any of this month's posts, you'll find them listed below. Browse through all of the Filling the Well posts from the last two years by clicking on "Filling the Well" in the sidebar list to the right.
 
Be well and be kind to yourself. 
          –Michelle



April 12: Beverly Cleary
April 17: Kobayashi Issa
April 30: Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Joyce, and Brandon Oldenburg
 
 
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Filling the Well: Nellie Bly, Pufferfish, and Danny MacAskill

 
Easter Island, photo by Andrea Vera Sasso

 
 Energy rightly applied and directed
will accomplish anything.

– Nellie Bly
 
 
"Puffer Fish Constructs a Masterpiece of Love" 

 
 
 "Danny MacAskill: The Ridge"
 

 
 

April 12: Beverly Cleary
 
 
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Filling the Well: Edith Wharton and Valérian Desterne

 
 
My little old dog:
A heart-beat
At my feet

– Edith Wharton
 
 
 
"After the Rain"
A short animated film by Valérian Desterne
 
 
 
 

April 12: Beverly Cleary
 
 
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Monday, April 25, 2022

Filling the Well: Romain Rolland, Georges Lemmen, NASA, and The Jive Aces

 
 
 If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
 
 – Romain Rolland
 
 
 
 
 
The Jive Aces
"Bring Me Sunshine" from King of the Swingers
 
 
 
 

April 12: Beverly Cleary
 
 
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Filling the Well: Emily Dickinson and Louie Schwartzberg (Earth Day)

 
 
 
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
 
 
 
Read Emily Dickinson's advice on prairie restoration at WingraSprings.
 
 
 "The Beauty of Pollination" 
 
 
Meet the artist who is painting 50,000 bees to raise awareness of their plight HERE.
 
 
 

April 12: Beverly Cleary
 
 
The Progressive Poem is a crowd favorite during National Poetry Month. Today it's making its 22nd stop at Reflections on the Teche, where Margaret Simon is also hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup. 
 
You'll find the National Poetry Month kidlit events roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup.

 
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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Filling the Well: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi



But remember this, Japanese boy, airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
 
– Hayao Miyazaki, from The Wind Rises
 
 
 
Huang Yi and KUKA 
A human-robot dance duet
 
 



April 12: Beverly Cleary
 
 
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Friday, April 15, 2022

Filling the Well: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

 
"Zanzibar: Dhows" by R. Boed

 
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
 
– Lucille Clifton 
from the poem "blessing the boats" 
 
 
"Sculpting the Wind"
Kinetic wind sculpture by Anthony Howe


Step inside Howe's studio to learn how the awe-inspiring works are created HERE.

Akeboshi
"Wind" from his self-titled debut album

(Read the lyrics HERE.)



 
If you're here for Poetry Friday, I'd like to draw your attention to two other poetry-related Filling the Well posts this week—one inspired by Lee Bennett Hopkins and the other inspired by X. J. Kennedy. 
 
Matt Forrest Esenwine hosts this week's roundup at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme, along with a terrific interview featuring Leslie Bulion's latest science poetry book—Serengeti: Plains of Grass. Also, don't forget to submit your poem to Matt's #PoetryCUBED writing prompt contest this month! You'll find the National Poetry Month kidlit events roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Filling the Well: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

 
Ria Sopala

 
Poetry helps us travel beyond ourselves.
 
– X. J. Kennedy
 
 
"Cloudscape" from Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Produced and directed by Godfrey Reggio
Music composed by Philip Glass
Cinematography by Ron Fricke

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Saturday, April 9, 2022

Filling the Well: Frances Hodgson Burnett

 
 
Where you tend a rose, my lad, 
a thistle cannot grow.
 
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, from The Secret Garden
 
 


 

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Friday, April 8, 2022

Filling the Well: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

 
Fun fact: Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day—March 14, 1879.


Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.
 
 
 
Problem in a Math Book
 
I remember a problem in a math book
about a train that leaves from place A and another train
that leaves from place B. When will they meet?
And no one ever asked what happens when they meet:
will they stop or pass each other by, or maybe collide?
 
Read the rest of the poem at Poetry Foundation.
 
 
Song from π, by aSongScout
 
 
For more about how this song was written, click HERE.
 
 
The power of x
Choreographed by I Could Never Be a Dancer
 
 
 
Now it's your turn!
 
WRITE A FIBONACCI (FIB) POEM

A poetic form created by Greg Pincus that plays off the mathematical Fibonacci sequence, a "Fib" is a six line, 20 syllable poem in which each line gets its syllable count from following the Fibonacci sequence. This means the six lines have syllable counts of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 respectively. Some would say the first number of the Fibonacci sequence is actually a zero, so imagine every Fib starting with a beat of silence.
 
WRITE A PI POEM
 
These are the first 20 digits of pi: 3.14159265358979323846 (or, if you're particularly ambitious, the first million digits). Choose one of the following variations:
  • The first line of your poem should have 3 WORDS; the second line, 1 word; the third line, 4 words; and so forth. Your poem can be as long as you like, so long as you keep to the sequence.
  • The first line of your poem should have 3 SYLLABLES, the second line, 1 syllable, the third line, 4 syllables, and so forth. You get the idea.
  • Each word in your poem must contain the same number of LETTERS as the sequence of pi. Line breaks are up to you.


If you leave your poems in the comments, I'd love to read them!
(But no million-digit pi poems, please.)





This week's Poetry Friday roundup is being hosted by Janice Scully at Salt City Verse. She shares a wonderful book review and interview with David Elliott about his newest children's poetry collection, At the Pond. 

You'll find the National Poetry Month kidlit events roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup.


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