The Chicago Poetry Center is pleased to serve in its 9th year as the Chicagoland Regional Host Organization for the Poetry Out…
Students wrote epistolary poems in the form of letters, fashioned after basketball player Kobe Bryant’s poem, “Dear Basketball.” Lesson Note:…
Students watched a bear cam video similar to the one described in the poem we studied, ‘There was this bear cam’ by…
More Than A Feeling Poet in Residence Joy Young asked students at Hamline Elementary to pick an emoji that answered…
Students used magazines and created cut-up poems! They used ‘found language’ and images to create new meaning. Lesson Note: Creative…
April is usually crowned month of Poetry. Although its coming to an end but that’s no reason not to still…
Students wrote poems in the ‘Open Mic’ style after reading the poem by Black poet and playwright Zetta Elliot’s piece,…
Students read Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s poem ‘Learning to Love America’ before they wrote their own ‘Because’ poems. Lesson Note: Born…
Students imagined life as a party and wrote poems using that metaphor based on Jason Shinder’s poem, ‘The Party.’ Lesson…
Students wrote memory list poems based on Joy Harjo’s poem, ‘Remember’. Lesson Note: Harjo’s work is often autobiographical, informed by…
The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated…
This week all Hamline 6th graders could talk about is the solar eclipse that’s happening on Monday, April 8th. During…