Donald Hall

I've been reading Donald Hall's White Apples and the Taste of Stone, which is a collection of his poems from 1946-2006. This book comes with a CD of Hall reading some of the poems, which I've been listening to in my car while driving to and from school. I recommend Hall's poem "To a Waterfowl." Here is a link to the audio of the poem online: http://audiopoetry.wordpress.com/category/poet/donald-hall/. I laughed out loud in the car while driving. I keep relistening to the poem over and over again. In teaching news, I only have two days left until Christmas break, not that I'm counting...but anyway, this year has gone well so far and my honors students are working on a project right now comparing Montag from Fahrenheit 451, Equality 7-2521 from Anthem, and Truman from The Truman Show. Oh, I don't think I've updated my blog since my post about censorship and Feed by M.T. Anderson. I can teach it as long as I get parent permission. I made the permission slips, sent them out, and received them all back. After break, Feed will be the next book we read.