Live from New York it's...Professor Poppick! Streaming in from SUNY Purchase College in New York, Professor Dan Poppick popped in to have a conversation with Mr. Root and Ms. Cowan's 4th graders about writing poetry. Students were able to ask questions about the writing process and learned that it can take 10 minutes to five years to write a poem! Professor Poppick read aloud, with great gusto, Wallace Stevens' poem, A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts. When a 4th grader inquired, What's the best way to come up with an idea for a poem? His answer was, "Just empty your head and let the ideas stream in..."
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