Poetry, Who Needs It? --Logan in the NYTimes

06-15-2014, 08:11 PM

Wintaka

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Agreeing with Chris. Again.

Quote:

William Logan wrote:

"My blue-sky proposal: teach America’s kids to read by making them read poetry."

Well, first we'd have to take away their IPods to prevent them from listening to it.

Or does he consider song lyrics prose?

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