Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-Mrs-Robinsons-Joyful-POetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/25/2006 The Joy of Poetry Transcript Mrs. Robinson was my sixth grade teacher. She was a tall, raw-boned woman, who called herself not Martha Robinson–in fact, I didn’t know her first name until I was long an adult–but Mrs. Barnette Robinson, in memory of […]
This recording is part of a collection of poems called Poetry Speaks to Children.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hilda-Conkling-Child-Poet.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/19/2004 Hilda Conkling, Child Poet Transcript It’s National Poetry Month, and many young people around the country will probably be writing some kind of verse — from haikus to rap lyrics — some time this month. Perhaps the most famous of all child poets […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Child-as-Poet-Mattie-Stepanek.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/12/2002 The Child as Poet: Mattie Stepanek Transcript It’s National Poetry Month, and because of the events of September 11th, we have turned to poetry as a way to give form and shape and language to those experiences that have stunned and overwhelmed our […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/When-Poems-Become-Novels.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/5/2002 Novel Poems Transcript Several years ago, if you handed a ten year old child a seven hundred page novel and asked him or her to read it – one would likely have met with an expression of sorrow and woe. But with the […]
You’re hearing Ruthie, who’s eight, reciting part of the poem, “Where a Cloud Sleeps” from a wonderful CD called “Re-Bop Read Aloud / For Kids, By Kids” from ReBop Records in Marshfield, Vermont.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-Sites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/3/2000 Poetry Sites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the Internet for us today, with some sites to begin National Poetry Moth. I discovered that April was National Poetry Month while helping a high school student locate the text of a particular poem on the […]