Poetry and Plagiarism

[Janice Webb <webbj@ILS.UNC.EDU>]

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It seems to me that this is a common request, especially among high school
librarians.  It might be a good idea to at least evaluate Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry Online.  A 30-day free trial is available to public
libraries, school libraries, and universities.  Their URL is
http://www.columbiagrangers.org/

Cheers!



Janice Webb
MLS Graduate School
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
email:  webbj@ils.unc.edu


Betty-Sarver -DEC wrote:

> An English teacher in my building is looking for information on a poem
> that a student turned in as his own, but that the teacher believes was
> plagiarized.  I have looked unsuccessfully to find the poem, and thought
> of all of the experts I have only a  keyboard's length away.  Can someone
> help?  Here is the poem:
>
> A POEM IS A CITY
>
> A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers
> Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,
> Filled with banality and booze,
> Filled with rain and thunder and periods of
> Draught, a poem is a city at war,
> A poem is a city asking a clock why,
> A poem is a city burning,
> A poem is a city under guns
> Its barbershops filled with cynical drunks,
> A poem is a city where god rides naked
> Through the streets like Lady Godiva,
> Where dogs bark at night, and chase away
> The flag; a poem is a city of poets,
> Most of them quite similar
> And envious and bitter...
> A poem is this city now,
> 50 miles from nowhere,
> 9:09 in the morning,
> The taste of liquor and cigarettes,
> No police, no lovers, walking the streets,
> This poem, this city, closing its doors,
> Barricaded, almost empty,
> Mournful without tears, aging without pity,
> The hardrock mountains,
> The ocean like a lavender flame,
> A moon destitute of greatness,
> A small music from broken windows...
>
> A poem is a city, a poem is a nation,
> A poem is the world.
>
> TIA,
>
> Betty Sarver
> Teacher Librarian
> Decatur High School
> (253) 945-5210
>
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