Dear OWP:

If you will be attending NCTE in Philadelphia this year, please join us for the Fountain of the Muse and the Poetry Commission Roundtable Presentation. See below for additional information.  

Best, 
Danny Wade
Bonner Slayton

FOUNTAIN OF THE MUSE

Session: FM.01 - 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm 11/21/2009  Format: Special Interest Group  
Room: Marriott/Franklin 6, 4th Floor  Topic: Other  
Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels)  


 
 
Title: Fountain of the Muse 
The 30th Annual Fountain of the Muse roundtable workshop and open mike poetry and short prose readings of original work will take place on Saturday. The session invites first time readers as well as established writers to participate together in totally relaxed, small group workshops and open mike readings. Those who wish to listen and enjoy the company of conference poets and prose writers are also welcome to join the gathering. Roundtable workshopping with begin at 8:30 p.m. with open mike readings beginning at 9:30 p.m. Writers who wish a careful look at their original work should bring eight copies of no more than two pages of poetry or prose for small group response. Preregistration for open mike is not necessary, and there is a 40-line or two-page maximum for open mike reads. Short verse, prose poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction excerpts are welcome. 

Chair:  Michael Angelotti, University of Oklahoma, Norman 
 



POETRY COMMISSION ROUNDTABLE

Session: K.12 - 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm 11/21/2009  Format: Roundtable  
Room: Convention Center/Room 204C, Level 2  Topic: Literature  
Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels)  
Strand(s): CEE Strand 
 
 
Title: The Poem that Was a Thinker: Reclaiming 21st Century Students through Poetry 
(Sponsoring Group: NCTE/CEE Commission on the Teaching of Poetry)
In an age of sound bites and short attention spans, poetry has not lost its power to cultivate student thinking and the habits of mind necessary for 21st century success. Through interactive lessons and discussion, participants will learn how poets and teachers of poetry utilize both traditional and contemporary verse to motivate students to collaborate, explain, analyze, debate, synthesize, express, and search for self-awareness in an uncertain world. 
 



Bonner Slayton, M.Ed., NBCT
Literacy Specialist
Moore Norman Technology Center
P.O. BOX 4701 
Norman, Oklahoma 73070-4701
405-217-8209