Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A final poem

Here's Taylor Mali reading his poem "The The Impotence of Proofreading."



You can read the text of the poem here. Try copying the text into Word and see if it catches any of the errors.

2 comments:

zEroOutPut said...

can you post the poems we read in class today(8/5/09)?

I like a few of them and I like to share it with my friends.

Nick Mullins said...

I'll give you the titles. If you copy them and paste them into Google, you should be able to find the full poems.

"Hope is the thing with feathers" Emily Dickinson
"Poetry" Marianne Moore
"Eating Alone" Li-Young Lee
"The Emperor of Ice-cream" Wallace Stevens
"The Answer" Robinson Jeffers
"To Be of Use" Marge Piercy
"The Journey" Mary Oliver
and
"Wild Geese" Mary Oliver