That was So Cool!

I was very impressed by our visitor in today's class. I learned a lot about what limitations and restraints can do to a poem. The whole idea of his site I found to be very intriguing. When he let us try out what it would be like to use some restraints when writing our own poems, I thought it would be easier than it actually was. While writing about the diagram on the board and trying to apply the picture to thoughts about Theo, I enjoyed writing about topics, I believe most of us would never write about. The felt like the whole point of today's class was to step outside into the world of poetry and experience it through the words of and feelings of a modern poet.
The deaf poetry of Lisa Jessie Peterson was one of the coolest poems I have ever heard. I thought it was a great closing for the end of class. The example that our visitor used applied all the techniques we had been talking about earlier in the class. Lisa explicitly showed the passion, stresses, rhythms, and dynamics that go into her poetry. Seeing Lisa's performance makes me wonder what it would be like if we wrote deaf jam poems for an a assignment and then performed them...