May Day
That’s the late, great, beat poet, Allen Ginsberg with friends singing a part of their 1969, slightly off-key version of one of William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”–the “Echoing Green.”
Poetry Collections
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-Collections.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/14/2000 Poetry Collections Transcript When kids get to pick out the poetry that they like, as you can imagine, they’ll usually go for something funny or gross or outrageous–something that pushes the envelope and makes us squeamish adults squirm a little in our chairs. […]
New Poetry Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Young-Peoples-Poetry-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/13/2000 New Poetry Books Transcript Every household should have a nice, thick volume of poetry on its shelves, for reading aloud or pouring over silently, for inspiration or comfort, or for the sheer pleasure of hearing language beautifully crafted. One doesn’t need to explicate […]
John Bunyan’s Poetry for Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Bunyan.mp3 Author Rita Smith with reading by Hank Conner Air Date 4/12/2000 John Bunyan Transcript For Young People’s Poetry Week, Rita Smith brings us a poetic rediscovery. This week we are celebrating National Youth Poetry Week. Poetry has been used as a means of teaching and entertaining children for centuries. […]
Mother Goose
That rapped up version of the classic nursery rhyme is from a wonderful CD from Music for Little People called “Toddlers Sing”–something good to fill your house with during young people’s poetry week.
National Week of the Young Child
What you’re hearing is a child making his first poems–squealing with delight at the sound of his own voice, rhyming sounds, endlessly repeating what he decides will be his choruses, singing his couplets with his whole little body.
Wordsworth’s Child
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wordsworths-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/7/2000 Wordsworth’s Child Transcript It’s the birthday today of William Wordsworth, who was born in 1770, and was one of the leading British Romantic poets. He wrote a poem called “The Rainbow” in 1802 that, in some respects, has shaped our thinking about childhood […]
First Remembered Poem
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Remembered-Poem.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/6/2000 The term Poetry – dictionary definition highlighted with yellow marker First Remembered Poem Transcript When I think of my first remembered poem, a warm spring day in 1952 marches through my memory so that I am once again in Mrs. Hopkins’ third […]
Poetry Sites
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 […]