I want to use the Penn State Modern Poetry class as my model for how to read a poem. Here is their super simple analytical plan: I have modified it a little to fit the idea that a blog using Hypothes.is can be a “platform” 1) Read the poem and annotate with Hypothes.is 2) Listen…

Books are a healthy reminder system for your values.  They are tactile, ethical blazes lit by others and nurtured on our shelves every time we return to them. A paragraph can burn as bright as a meteor.  Here is some more from Wendell Berry’s A Continuous Harmony. The essay is titled “Hope and Discipline”.  I…