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Simons Says -- Let's -- Read Poetry for Pleasure

Poetry is not a puzzle; it's an opportunity. Be careful. You might enjoy it.

It's true. There are people out there who read poetry that -- wait for it -- hasn't been assigned to them [gasp]. It's true. Why? Because poetry says something essential about life, about being a human being. Let's read poetry to figure out who we are. Let's experience the pleasure of playing with a poem's ideas. Let's simply develop a language for discussing those ideas. We just might find out that poetry is a powerful way to make more sense of our world.

The film-poem genre

An animation inspired by the poem, "In the Dead of Winter We", by R.A. Villanueva, from his book Reliquaria.

Nominated for the 2015 Webby Awards Best Online Video: Animation

..."happy days and sentimental memories during early years of my life as an immigrant in the U.S.A." -Leonardo Reyes

"To Be of Use" Marge Piercy

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Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this film adaptation of Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Famous” meditates on the human desire to be seen and the individualized ways in which we define recognition. Naomi Shihab Nye, "Famous" from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Used with permission of Far Corner Books.