20 Line Poem due 3/8

Does anybody know if we're supposed to just have the poem typed or have the scansion included as well?

Billy Collins Reading!

Hey everybody, so I just wanted to finalize the travel arrangements for getting to Philly for the Billy Collins reading. We need two drivers (it's best if you are 18 because then we technically won't be breaking the law by having lots of people in your car). Please comment if you are willing to (and allowed to) drive and how many people you can fit in your car. Thanks everybody!

~Olivia

Poetry Month 2

I think it would be cool to read a poem over the loudspeaker maybe once every Friday during poetry month. We could have three people go down to the main office early that day, and alternate verses. This way each person can get a chance to read. We could do different time periods. The first can be from the old English time perod, then get more recent until we get to a current poem. This would be a fun way to raise our fellow classmates' awareness about poetry week. Please tell me what you think.-Alex H.

Poetry Month

Hey everyone! So I was thinking a little bit about planning an activity for April and I was thinking that perhaps we could "bring poetry to the masses" with a slightly larger scale Poetry Slam than just one at MHS. I realize that it's not very original, but I know people at the Moorestown Library (wow, that sounds sketchy), and I thought maybe a Poetry Slam there could be fun. It would be open to the whole community and could therefore reach more people. We could also do an event at the library for children, which I think could be quite successful. We could either do the readings ourselves, like a story hour, or allow children to read some poems they either enjoy or even wrote themselves, or a little of both. I went to a poetry workshop at the library some years ago, and it was really fun and well-attended. So tell me what you think!

~Olivia

Lydia

1. Lydia’s one mantra in like was to “grab the bull by the horns.” The more dangerous a situation was, the more likely Lydia would be in attendance, and in most cases, Lydia would be leading the pack. She never shied away from an opportunity to prove just how reckless and adventurous she could be. Many people believed that it was innately part of her nature, as if she were born a mini Indian Jones with a lasso-whip at the ready for an adventure. Truth be told though, Lydia had grown up nearly suffocating in the confining restrictions her parents placed upon her. Walking outside of the door without firmly holding her mother’s hand was strictly forbidden, even if she were only going into the backyard. She spent the first 18 years of her life feeling as if she were living in a fishbowl three sizes too small. Maybe her parent’s intentions had been good, after all, the world could be a scary and difficult place. However their fears were taken to an extreme, and left Lydia with the almost desperate urge to test life’s limits simply to prove to her parents that she wouldn’t die by walking outside unattended. The minute Lydia turned 18, she charged through life head first, seeking out scenarios that would allow her to push her limits, and allow her to say to her parents, “You told me not to do this, but I did and I am fine."

~Gretchen

Logan Rodgers

Logan is a 23 year old boy who just graduated from the local community college. He has always lived at home, which is located near the beach. While many of the guys he knows majored in things such as business and engineering, he majored in environmental science. Logan has a love for the beach. He spends all the time he can there, and doesn't ever see himself moving away from the beach. He spends all the time he can there, and doesn't ever see himself moving away from the beach. Living there has made him have a love for nature and appreciate everything it has to offer. He is not materialistic at all, and for this reason many people don't understand him. He is one of the only people he knows that doesn't even own an iPod. He doesn't have many friends, but he finds comfort in the fact that the beach is somewhere he can go alone and be perfectly okay with it.

-Sarah

Dan the Musician

Being a musician is something that no one will regret becoming. Dan is an excellent drummer and loves to just bang on his drum set whenever he has the opportunity to. For as long time he has tried to encourage his friends to help him create a small band so they could make music. He tells me all the time that everyone in the world should be a musician. He also says he feels bad for the people who aren't. He says they are missing out on a great experience. He takes being a musician very seriously. Many people consider being a musician his best quality.

Taylor