Meet the Author

Today during class, we had the wonderful privilege of having a visitor. Mrs. Sandy Longhorn came and was every so gracious to real aloud two of her poems:"ETUDE" and "PSALM FOR THE COLOR RED". Upon hearing the original poet read aloud I was a able to get a better insight into what the poem was supposed to sounded like. While Mrs. Longhorn was reading I followed along and marked the spots were she paused for emphasis. Later after rereading the poem "PSALM FOR THE COLOR RED" I really felt like I was able to gain a deeper insight into what Mrs. Longhorn was trying to get across to us, since I now knew where the correct pauses were. When I got home today I read "PSALM FOR THE COLOR" to my husband, with and without the correct pauses and he seemed to have a different views on each reading of the poem. When Mrs. Longhorn read "ETUDE" I noticed that she rarely paused in the reading and that her voice was very mono-toned, almost like it was on long poem. The poem seemed to flow off of her lips and float in the air,(wind)just like in the poem. I have never had the experience before to attend a poetry reading. I truly enjoyed it and love to attend more,(as long as the subject matter is along my liking). Also in class today we watched a clip from Taylor Mali, who poked fun at the terrible job we do of making mistakes while writing papers.