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Students used magazines and created cut-up poems! They used ‘found language’ and images to create new meaning. Lesson Note: Creative Artist guru, Julia Cameron, says the part of us that creates art is about […]

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 that ‘we understand history from the family around […]

Blackout Poetry: A blackout poem is created when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like that from a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a poem is formed or an […]

A discussion of food and memory began our class in preparation to study Gary Soto’s Narrative Style poem, Oranges. Nostalgia and feelings came up a lot in our talks. What emotions are attached to […]

Students watched a bear cam video similar to the one described in the poem we studied, ‘There was this bear cam’ by critic and poet, Sandra Simonds. Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations […]

Students used school memories (both real and imagined) to craft this week’s poems. Lesson Note: According to findings by the leading researcher on the power of writing and journaling for healing purposes, James Pennebaker, […]

This week, students revised poems about place, meditation, and food that they had worked on earlier in the residency. Lesson Note: “In working on a poem, I love to revise….in the process of revision […]

Students thought and wrote about what happens at night after reading, ‘Quiet Night Thought by Li Bai Lesson Note: ‘My approach to writing has this belief at its core: To become…a more confident writer […]

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Lesson Note: Writer/Performer Anna Deavere Smith who interviews people and then writes those interviews down verbatim like poetry, insists […]

What makes a hero (both real or imagined), and how can we learn from them (even the villains) and the inner-hero inside of us? We explored those concepts and more in What I Learned […]

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