Constance Alexander http://wkms.org en Teaching Poetry to Kids and Recording for Radio http://wkms.org/post/teaching-poetry-kids-and-recording-radio <p>Murray State’s Teacher Quality Institute’s Constance Alexander brings poetry to the studio on <em>Sounds Good</em> today. She’s produced Poetry Minutes for WKMS over the past several years. In the conversation, she reads some of the poems written by area school kids for the project, and talks about teaching poetry to kids, how to interpret&nbsp;something like a photo or painting using carefully constructed words.</p><p><a href="http://wkms.org/post/poetry-minutes-2013-picturing-america">Click here to listen to this year's Poetry Minutes</a>.</p><p><em>Bonus:</em> <a href="http://wkms.org/poetry-minutes-2012-journey-stories">Here's last year's Poetry Minutes</a>!</p><p> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:37:02 +0000 Kate Lochte 30307 at http://wkms.org Teaching Poetry to Kids and Recording for Radio The (Not So Smooth) Time Warner Transition http://wkms.org/post/not-so-smooth-time-warner-transition <p>What happens when a regional cable service changes hands? Not so much, according to commentator Constance Alexander.</p><p> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:47:55 +0000 Constance Alexander and Matt Markgraf 18226 at http://wkms.org The (Not So Smooth) Time Warner Transition