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Month: May 2019

Posted on May 31, 2019December 29, 2020

To Walt Whitman, On His 200th Birthday

Although Edgar Allan Poe may have written the most famous American poem, “The Raven,” it’s Walt Whitman, The Father of Free Verse and The Good Gray Poet, who claims the top spot as our most important poet. Born on May 31, 1819, he became a national treasure by the time of his death, though criticism …

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Posted on May 20, 2019December 29, 2020

On the Occasion of Poetry

I’ve done a tremendous amount of writing in the past four months, much more than in the previous few years combined. I often go through spurts, starts and stops, devoting time to writing lyrics for a song or turning my attention to a poem or two. Sometimes I’ll give an assignment to my students, and …

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Although I consider myself a teacher and a writer, I am, first and foremost, a student.  My blog, therefore, is about looking deeper than the surface level, which I always challenge my high school students to do.  We’re always after Ahab’s White Whale, whether it be interpretation, research, or simply the white page before the writer.

—Aaron Sinkovich, The White Whale

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