Our Irish Poet

My seniors are moving toward their oral commentary with our Irish poet, Eavan Boland. Together, we chose 18 poems within the 30 line upper limit. Only one have we ejected. I thought we had decided to eject 2 until we conferred last week and they said, no, we're keeping that one! I'm so pleased that they have had a good experience with Boland. I chose her because I like to do new things, we can't have enough Irish writers, and I was curious about her. It has been such a rewarding experience for me to prepare these poems with the seniors. I have not established contact with her (as I did with Tal Ben Shahar a few years ago) but I think of it. I'm sure she has plenty of fans across IB land.