Unsound Science: Poetry by Robert Sonkowsky

Robert Sonkowsky’s creative second-grade teacher, Miss Malarkey, in Appleton, Wisconsin, was his first love. She taught spelling by asking her pupils to compose stories and poems from the spelling-word-lists and to read them aloud standing before the class. As a shy young boy, and future actor and poet, he enjoyed, already then, speaking non-autobiographically, with what would one day become a Stanislavskian basis in the imagination of real life. Robert remembers two lines from the poem he ...