Coming soon: Banned Books and an Autumn Poetry Primer

Sep 23, 2009 12:04

Starting on Saturday and running through October 3rd, I'll be doing a week's worth of posts about banned books. I'm thinking I'll be talking about books that I've read and enjoyed that are on the lists of frequently challenged books ( Read more... )

banned books, autumn, poetry

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jbknowles September 23 2009, 16:17:17 UTC
Sounds like a great plan.

:-)

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kellyrfineman September 23 2009, 21:15:29 UTC
To quote from the A-Team, "I love it when a plan comes together."

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phoenixfirewolf September 23 2009, 17:31:57 UTC
Cool!

My goal (one of them) as a writer is to make the banned book list, and not because of language. LOL.

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kellyrfineman September 23 2009, 21:16:09 UTC
I am sure you have the cat in the bag on the book.

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sandrawickham September 23 2009, 17:40:14 UTC
I look forward to the list of banned books, very interesting....

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kellyrfineman September 23 2009, 21:17:13 UTC
The lists are kept by the American Library Association, among other places. I plan on talking about some of the challenged books that I know and love (or not).

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jongibbs September 23 2009, 19:51:15 UTC
I look forward to reading your thoughts :)

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kellyrfineman September 23 2009, 21:17:33 UTC
Let's hope I have some by then.

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jongibbs September 23 2009, 21:20:16 UTC
Lol, good one :)

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heatherbird September 30 2009, 01:27:59 UTC
One of my favorite autumn poems is Gary Soto's "October," which I'll be teaching tomorrow :) -- I'll be sure to post about it!

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