hello everyone

I’m an amateur poet and I’m desperate to find a critic for my work. I hope you cna help me guys!!!;)

If anyone is interested I’m teaching a free class on “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” next month. Please check my profile for more details. Thanks!

If you’re serious about your poetry, you need to practice reading it in front of people.

Check out this class—not mine, and free:

http://edufire.com/classes/3978-edufire-coffee-house

Cause ya see I’m possessed
So I dont care about the rest
and all them awful thoughts yall got goin on
I just get it off my chest
and i dont care about all them awful thoughts yall got goin on
cause if it aint a contribution your just a destruction
You can bring yourself to the lowest places
i’ll cut the cord and watch ya fall cause you aint bringin me down with ya

Sit back or join forces while we rise to the top

I see ya sittin there starin at the tv
since when is the tv our source of inspiration?
or our source of relaxation?
its our place to come together
like a prehistoric firepit
exept instead of sharing stories
and dreaming up our future
we handcuff our souls
and lock away the mind
like i said this life isn’t for me

so sit back join forces while we rise to the top

bring me that positive energy
it might be burried deep
deep deep deep
some day you’ll learn
to hide it up your sleeve
and pull it out real quick
when a brother is in need

sit back or join forces while we rise to the top :)

Just been reading through this whole thread and found it really interesting, especially Alaia’s point about the shifting stress depending on the part of speech. When teaching pronunciation I think it’s useful to make students aware of these patterns as they can be generalised. In most two syllable noun/verbs pairs the stress shifts from the first syllable in a noun to the second syllable in a verb e.g.

a record to record
an import to import
refuse to refuse

If you come across it a great book on teaching pronuncation is Sound Foundations: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation by Adrian Underhill

Hi Marian and welcome to eduFire! I am glad that you found us here and look forward to seeing your classes.
Enjoy the orientation classes!

Moving to ‘Fireside Chat’ :)

Welcome to eduFire Lord :) Please do attend the student orientation classes for new students when you can. click here to register!

Mary is exactly right!

Excellent! Thanks Joe. I have registered!

It’s a nice thing that people are visiting each other’s blogs today.
@Alaia, yes, they do work much like a website when it comes to what it takes to get them to show up in a search engine. They have PR like other sites. I believe that updating the content is more important for a blog, though — it can fall back down through the ranks.
@Ron, that was a hoot.

Alaia, I do sometimes see ads in the application, though they never apear on the blog itself (the public part).

I included a line from a song from the song “Time After Time” in a post, and when I reentered the app to edit it, an advertisement for Cyndi Lauper briefly flashed before my eyes. I think it’s pretty funny, actually.

Now I hope you will view this next tidbit with a sense of humor. I am not suggesting that a current events blog or teaching blog is the forum for blinkies or jelly bean shaped buttons, but if you think it’s not possible to add bells and whistles to Blogger, Cat Spills the Beans

Maybe it’s a matter of terminology. The word ‘politics’ does mean something very different than ‘current events’ but a lot of people interchange them.

Alan is right in the since that opinions about current events can alienate some people. I guess it comes down to who your audience is. As long as you’re not saying things that could get you in trouble (and you’re not) you decide who your audience is, and you speak to them. (It’s an issue I’ve weighed a lot, too.)

There is a counterargument to everything, but I’m getting the sense that audio might be a part of your niche.

Another site with favorable reviews is Yudu
They both have free and paid account options. Free would get you going, but you might ultimately want a paid account for more media options (or if you decided to sell your work for a profit). Yudu has a more economical upgrade — but that’s a snazzy book shelf thingamajig that Issuu has got going. Anybody with experience with Yudu, or a comparison between the two?