- BY: Poetry Center
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Application Open: April 1 -24, 2024 Click here for application The Chicago Poetry Center is excited to announce an open call for new board members. We are seeking individuals with a passion for connecting […]
- BY: Joy Young
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It’s exciting to be back at Shoesmith again. I saw familiar faces, met new students, and was greeted warmly by teachers and staff. Last Friday for their first session of poetry, 5th and 6th […]
- BY: Tor Warren
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Last week at poetry club, we finished up our unit on poetic forms and took some time to reflect on our work in the past few weeks. Then we used lines from our previous […]
- BY: Mayda del Valle
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This week Ms. Murray’s 4th graders explored the ode, a popular poetic form used to celebrate a person, place, thing, or even an idea. We started off by talking a bit about Pablo Neruda, […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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Students created Diamond Poems using parts of speech and their wonderful imaginations. Lesson Note: A diamante poem is a poem in the shape of a diamond. It can be used to compare and contrast […]
- BY: Poetry Center
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Behind the Scenes of Our First Video Series: Queen Zee’s Poetic Adventures After months of project planning, script writing, and rehearsals, the Chicago Poetry Center filmed its first ever “poetry on demand” video series this month. Queen […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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Students created concrete poems to showcase shape and style. Below are the first drafts, which were hand-drawn and written! Lesson Note: “I think you should be intuitive and playful in your choices and determined […]
- BY: Larry Dean
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After a few weeks off, we reunited for our penultimate sessions, reading and discussing “maggie and milly and molly and may” by E. E. Cummings. I suggested that this poem was a kind of […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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For our 12 sessions each class engaged poetry uniquely. I brought in books of poems and Swift students and teachers took turns reading aloud in both English and Spanish. In one classroom students danced […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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The 1st session in my 4th year of being invited to engage Shoesmith 4th graders in poetry was 🔥! It included sweet reunions with staff, teachers, and former students at the front desk, in […]
- BY: Russell Price
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This week the young vikings explored cinematic poetry. We discussed what are the components of a movie: dialogue, setting, sound, actors, etc…We read “Please Refrain from Talking During the Movie” by Robert Polito and […]
- BY: Joy Young
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Twain 6th graders not only traveled back in time for their third week of poetry, they also welcomed the solar eclipse. All the students, teachers, and staff at Twain stood in the playground and […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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Last Friday Swift students tried their hands at using alliteration in their poems. It was challenging! Ms Urquiza2nd Grade A Baby Bee and Birdby Breanna V. On one beautiful day it wasWednesday and it […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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After reading student poet Noor S.’s poem ‘Self Portrait with my Loose Hijab, ‘ students wrote self-portrait poems focusing on one aspect of themselves! Self-Portrait with my loose hijab By Noora S. Trying to […]
- BY: Mayda del Valle
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Spring is in the air! For our session before the spring break students worked on poems about dreams. Dreams for the future, or the wild and strange things that we see on the movie […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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After reading student poet Noor S.’s poem ‘Self Portrait with my Loose Hijab, ‘ students wrote self-portrait poems focusing on one aspect of themselves! Self-Portrait with my loose hijab By Noora S. Trying to […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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Students made the old-school paper game called a ‘Cootie Catcher,’, which is a form of origami used in children’s games. Parts of the catcher are labeled with words that serve as options for a […]
- BY: Joy Young
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This week all Hamline 6th graders could talk about is the solar eclipse that’s happening on Monday, April 8th. During an eclipse the moon will pass between the Sun and Earth, which will block […]
- BY: Russell Price
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This week the young Vikings explored ekphrastic poetry and read examples by Anne Sexton, Frank O’Hara, and Homer. They were then tasked with picking a favorite painting of theirs and writing a poem in […]
- BY: Joy Young
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Twain 6th graders came back from a relaxing Spring Break, recharged and ready for poetry! For our 2nd poetry session, we explored ideas about self-portraits. I showed students self-portraits painted by famous Mexican artist […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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Last class, we discussed Dada art, and how the Dadaists thought all art was random. Today, we compared that with Jamila Woods “Blk Girl Art.” The students had terrific insight on Woods’ poem and […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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Last class, we discussed Dada art, and how the Dadaists thought all art was random. Today, we compared that with Jamila Woods “Blk Girl Art.” The students had terrific insight on Woods’ poem and […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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We studied dada poetry/collage today in Ms. Krasic’s 8th grade class. First, we looked at some pieces of dada art by artists like Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp. Can a bicycle wheel on a […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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We studied dada poetry/collage today in Ms. Shweta’s 5th grade class. First, we looked at some pieces of dada art by artists like Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp. Can a bicycle wheel on a […]
- BY: Timothy David Rey
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A common household object became the focus of this lesson while studying Joy Harjo’s poem, Perhaps The World Ends Here. The poet James Merrill once commented, ‘we understand history from the family around the table.’ […]
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