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Residency
Poets?
To the editor:
I recently returned from the public schools of Richmond where I had a two-day Poets-in-Schools “residency”. I met with 20 middle-level children for two hours a day in the school library.
Several of these children were not particularly interested in poetry. They came because they had to. My task was to entice them to experiment with a new, and ultimately very serious kind of play, called poetry.
How exciting for them to discover that the English language could be a medium to be trimmed and fashioned and shaped - as potters shape clay - to express their own intuition, their own unique vision. How exciting to discover, suddently, that they had a whole lot that they wanted to say, and to become so absorbed in saying it that they did not even look up when the school photographer walked around the table snapping their pictures.
In Richmond, poets (and other artists) have 1 to 6 weeks residencies. Usually they take over the regular English classroom. (How simple vocabulary, grammer and spelling become, when needed for self-expression). Sometimes they meet with selected children: the retarded, the exceptional, : and fiHtwfd - tom - etiUdiak who get into trouble.
Two nearby school systems: Front Royal and Warrenton also participate in this program. But where is Rappahannock?
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