This week I'm joining Ethical ELA for a 5-day writing opportunity for teachers. It's called Open Write and there are posts with a prompt everyday. Teacher writers are invited to try the prompt and share in the comments. Today the prompt was to gather found items from outside and the invitation was to use write found poetry inspired by #teachinglivingpoets' We're going on a treasure hunt!
I meant to look for things while walking Perdi or when we went out to eat for Father's Day but I ended up finding a snatch of text from an interview I listened to. It was Michael Silverblatt interviewing Zadie Smith about On Beauty and it was too perfect not to write down.
On How To Be Human
It's summer
And I can read again
I can write again
I can create again
I have headspace
And I'm not used to it
Sometimes I scroll on my phone
Sometimes I feel listless
Other times I get busy
And I crave more
Like I'm watching YouTube
But I'm also listening to an interview
Like I'm programmed to do all the things at once
And then I'm struck with beauty
Words that are so true
Words that I feel so deeply
The reading of novels and poetry
was instruction
on how to be human
Michael Silverblatt's voice sears
straight to my soul
I stop
And listen to them again
Write them down
Read them one more time
It's summer
And I can read again
I can write again
I can create again
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