Bookmarks State's Poet Laureate Echoes Sounds of the Earth, Her Heart

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State's poet laureate echoes sounds of the earth, her heart

You might see them sometimes -- a slender, longhaired, middle- aged woman and a group of fourth- and fifth-graders looking out somewhat meditatively at the waters of Green Bay. Walk softly, then. They are learning poetry. They are learning how to talk to the world. They are learning about our connection to the environment.

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Bookmarks State's Poet Laureate Echoes Sounds of the Earth, Her Heart

Water, poet Denise Sweet tells them, has a voice.

Listen.

"What I try to do is personify water," Sweet says when she talks about her work with grade school students in Green Bay. "I try to give it voice, to allow it to have human qualities. When we look at the bay we listen very closely to the voice of water.

"It's not difficult to get them to imagine that the wilderness, the trees, the plants, the animals can speak to us -- that's not the...

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