I have raged for thousands of years. I was on the other tree in Eden and I escaped Greece unexploited by the Gods. I never was fruit of fantasy for seers and bards, nor the food of tales for old wives. For I am not so red, not so self-contained, no so easily held or thrown. Never have poets said...

Other than a chickadee which I bought from a pick-up truck vendor many, many years ago I had never purchased a live animal Today I went to Chinatown and parked on the south end of Grant I walked down the street combing the poultry shops for a live duck Most of the old markets had been shut down...

Samih Al-Qasim (1939- ), translated by Abdullah al-UdhariFrom the window of my small cell I can see trees smiling at me, Roofs filled with my people, Windows weeping and praying for me. From the window of my small cell I can see your large cell.

Jalalud’din Rumi (!3th Century), translated by Kulliyat-e Shams, from Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz: Selected Odes (Element Classics of World Spirituality). (England: Dorset Books, 1997) A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I....

My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir And glittered in her eyes. From The Wild Swans at Cooley (1919).

This poem is written in dialect. I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything I be bringing a whole heart and while it do have nicks and dents and scars, that only make me lay it down more careful-like An' you be...

Al Zolynas (1945- ), from Kowit, Steve, ed., The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (Santee, CA: Gorilla Press, 1988).Afternoon. Across the garden, in Green Hall, someone begins playing the old piano— a spontaneous piece, amateurish and alive, full of a simple, joyful melody. The music floats among us...

Jane Hirshfield (1953- ), from Of Gravity and Angels (Middleton, CT: Weslyan University Press, 1988).A woman tells me the story of a small wild bird beautiful on her window sill, dead three days. How her daughter came suddenly running, "It's moving, Mommy, he's alive." And when she went, it was....

Welcome to your butterfly garden! The garden needs you to take care of it. Here are a few easy ways to care for your garden: Because many plants are poisonous, never taste or eat any plant part. Do not walk among the plants or step on plants. A broken branch wounds the plant....

Daniel Henderson (1880-1955)In certain parts of Great Britain, where families commonly kept beehives, people believed the first thing you should do when a relative dies is to tell the bees. BEES, go tell the things he treasured — Oak and grass and violet — That although his life was measured He...

from The Prophet by Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)Beauty XXV But the restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions." At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the...

Please complete and return to a Families leader. 1. What is your overall rating of the program? Circle one. Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Comment: 2. What is your overall rating of the photo-documentary project? Circle one. Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Comment: 3....

Assign a family member role to each member of your group, and plan two role-plays. The first role-play can demonstrate the way you think the family would most likely react. Or it can demonstrate, with humor, a disastrous family response....

Method One: Writing a Tercet In a tercet, every other line rhymes. A tercet is a form of poetry that has three-line stanzas in which the first and third lines rhyme. The second line is a blank, unrhymed line. Most poets string multiple tercets together to form a poem....

Excerpt from an interview conducted and published by Advocates for Youth (permission pending). June 22, 2001,10:30 a.m. Hanne: Well, not only have I been a musician, historian, and writer, I've always been a fat person....

These statistics were gathered by Groundspark. Millions of children are raised by single or divorced parents, grandparents, guardians, parents of different religions or races, gay or lesbian parents, or adoptive parents. What do American families look like today? Single Parents Single parents...

Use the following questions to evaluate the photographs you took of the families. Does this photograph seem to "capture" its subjects? What do you like about the photograph? Overall lighting: Does the lighting add or detract from the photograph? Focus: Is it clear?...

Backlight makes these subjects appear to “glow.” Stronger backlight could cause loss of detail in their faces and require a flash to bring out facial features. Shadows create different values and interesting effects. Contrasting values of light and shadows result in a moody quality in this...

Sidelights can create artistic effects that may or may not be desirable. Lighting influences the quality and feel of photographs. How would you compare the quality of these two photos?

The same and different from the previous photograph... The photographer shot this from slightly above. The point of view influences the quality and feel of the photograph.