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[eeyore_grrl]

Gary soto does not read his prose, in person, all that amazingly.

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[bdot.livejournal.com]

in general, he is not a good public speaker... he did the key note at a teacher conference i went to shortly after chato's kitchen was published... his books are great though!

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Authors are not necessarily good speakers or readers. I have "Fahrenheit 451" on CD read by Ray Bradbury, and it's nothing special.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

still... Gary Soto - that's pretty cool.

I got to hear Christopher Paul Curtis and Rodman Philbrick last year at the Read-180 conference. they were both very very good speakers.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

agreed! also, from past experience, frost should not be aloud a voice. snodgrass either. orr... i can't rememeber but we had one poet at college who I LOVED his writiing and i actually fell asleep.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

read 180. what do you know about it...?

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

lots. taught it for 3 years and posses much of the materials here at home (shhh, don't tell!)

what do you want to know, and shall we discuss over beverages/lunch sometime or over IM?

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

we do CBL at SCCOE (and by we i mean we are supposed to and we are in a training this week, but i don't tend to follow directions).

i've heard of read 180, but know nothing about it.

i would love to do beverages with you if we can work out our schedules. otherwise, just an overview.