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Hands on Stanzas Blogs

Welcome to the Hands on Stanzas Blogs. Each week our teachers post their students' work in progress and you can follow along by clicking on the individual school blogs listed below.

To read a school’s blog just click on the school name below, or scroll down to see the 10 most recent posts from all schools.

Skinner West

	Give Me Poetry Submitted by Larry Dean on February 21, 2013 - 7:00pm. Skinner West Last time, I wrote about finding inspiration while researching poetry ideas based around holidays. read more »

True Love Always
Submitted by Larry Dean on February 19, 2013 - 2:54pm.
Skinner West
When I sit down to create syllabi and lesson plans for my residencies, one of the elements I plug in to begin are holidays. I may not ultimately use them as part of a poetry idea, but it's one more thing to consider, and in cases where I am stuck, or looking for inspiration, a holiday that falls on or near the day of a residency might just point me in a heretofore unconsidered direction.

Hi, Ku!
Submitted by Larry Dean on February 13, 2013 - 7:26pm.
Skinner West
Last week at Skinner, we read selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, as translated by American poet Robert Hass. In his lifetime, Issa wrote over 20,000 haiku, and though his works were popular, he never made much money from them. Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese poetic form cocnsiting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables. read more »

	Contents of "Table" Submitted by Larry Dean on February 1, 2013 - 7:19pm. Skinner West After a rousing (and busy!) first week, we were a bit more focused for our second class at Skinner. read more »

Pleased to Meet You, Skinner West!
Submitted by Larry Dean on January 25, 2013 - 6:52pm.
Skinner West

I am thrilled to be the poet-in-residence this year at Skinner West Classical-Fine Arts-Technology School! This week, I met the 2nd graders in Ms. Ellis, Ms. Helfrich, and Mrs. Rupp's classrooms. Meeting so many new students can be daunting, but the children made me feel welcome and the teachers kindly (and patiently) allowed me to take part in their very busy day.