This essay would be so great in an intro english class; then have them take a different zingy tiny poem and write (on paper, in class, how we do now) an essay that's in their own voice, not an "I am writing a paper I might be chat-gpt" voice, about the journey of their own reactions to the poem.
Brenna Munro
Give yourself a gift this morning and read this short Eileen Myles piece on Melville's "A Tuft of Kelp" with its annihilating last line: www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...
