Join the Poetry Center of Chicago in the downstairs space at Subterranean for the February installment of the Six Points Reading Series! In 2016 we continue to move to a […]
We Will A Joyful World: Odes @ ALS
This week the 4th graders at Avondale Logandale and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love […]
You Say You Want a Resolution
After more than a month away, I returned to Skinner West this week to begin the second half of my residency. The students were happy to see me, and I […]
A Rainbow Is A Sash Of Colors: Odes @ Moos
This week the 3rd graders at Moos and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with […]
You Are Like a Heart Falling: Odes @ Darwin
This week the 2nd graders at Darwin and I read Ode to Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda. This poem leaves with the sense that the poet is in love with […]
Fatimah Asghar & Donna Vorreyer to read Jan. 28
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago for the Six Points Reading Series’ first installment of 2016! This first reading of the year turns a new page for the Poetry Center […]
Who Is…William Carlos Williams? Our Perceptions of Things
This week had Taft 7th Graders trying their hand at the short Imagist style poetry, as in William Carlos William’s The Locust Tree In Flower. I had them listen to […]
Hanging Whaaaaat? Details in Our Worries
This week we took a brave leap while examining our overall theme of, ‘Writer Who Are You: Identity Through Poetry.’ We looked at our own worries (or lack of) beginning […]
You talkin’ to me? Looking At Our Lives Through Personification
Our fourth week had us looking at personification and the use of the vernacular in Frank O’Hara’s A True Account of Talking To the Sun At Fire Island, where the […]
Like You: Looking At Our Lives Through Simile
For our 3rd Lesson, we started with a game. Students were broken up into groups, given random index cards with various words which might make up a string of simile. […]
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