This section of Poetry of Aging is devoted to poems students wrote on course materials read or viewed during the course. The first example is from A House in Flanders , written by Michael Jenkins. Several students have written poems inspired by reading about Hagar.
Some examples follow.
In the first example the student included an image xeroxed from a magazine to add a visual image to the words. It will be a kindler, gentler life . . . Some of my students used that idea to write about Hagar Shipley, the main character in The Stone Angel. Hagar Shipley sat in on Kenneth Koch's poetry writing class after all. I never told anybody, Anything.