Wednesday MM - April 13th

Good Morning - Week "B"

There is a Poetry workshop this afternoon facilitated by Kathy.  Rather than write a short section for you, I want to share an excerpt regarding my current favorite author.

As the journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates has become a household name over the last year with his National Book Award–winning memoir Between the World and Me and his MacArthur Fellowship, he has often been compared to James Baldwin. That comparison—made by the likes of Toni Morrison—is thanks to Coates’s intellectual dexterity, the elegance of his prose, and his uncompromising moral vision. But the two men have something else in common: poetry.

Coates started writing “bad poetry” (his words) in high school, but he took it up with more seriousness in college. When he arrived at Howard University, whose community he calls “the Mecca,” he fell in with poets that included E. Ethelbert Miller, Elizabeth Alexander, Joel Dias-Porter, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey. Coates became a journalist, of course, not a poet. But in Between the World and Me, he writes about how understanding poetry taught him to write: “Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away, and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.”

Our SIT is making improvements to the process and structure of our meetings. We will post the agenda for our Monday meetings on the Wednesday prior, via google docs.  Check your e-mail today for the link.  Our next meeting is April 18th @ 3:30 in the computer lab. 
  

Subs:

• William Newell for Lindsay Woodhouse
• Evelyn Howie for Jenn Davis
• Veronica Scales for Brandi Burroughs
• Please keep Damita in your thoughts as her Mother-in-law passed away this week.  The service is Saturday and Laurie has  the details.  (She will return to work Monday)