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‘You’re Latina, right?’ : The Question Poem

We opened class by playing a few rounds of Rapid Fire Questions ( a set of random questions that a student tried to answer in under a minute) before we began to wrap our […]

‘An po, to mrove my love…’ : Creative Syntax in Poetry

Students were given nonsense words and asked to create their own pronunciations and definitions, before delving into Kevin Young’s poem of altered cliché’s, Errata. ‘Errata’ means an error in a text. Lesson Note: ‘There […]

‘You left as fast as a pitch good-bye’: Simile

We explored Simile in Michael Ondaaje’s poem, Sweet Like A Crow. We also talked about using epigraphs and dedications in verse. Lesson Note: Students played the Pictionary-style game, ‘Draw That Simile’ to get their […]

‘Because art is for everyone to see’

This week we looked at Yannis Ritsos’ poem, Because. We talked about the short form of poetry and the Volta: the place in a poem where it takes a ‘turn of thought or augment.’ […]

‘do what Wonder Woman does.’: We Could Be Heroes

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 these concepts and more in What I […]

On Repeat

We explored the powerful device of in Phil Kaye’s poem Repetition of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: Writer/Performer Anna Deavere Smith who interviews people and […]

‘I remember every word you say’: The Power of Repetition

We explored the powerful device of Repetition in Phil Kaye’s poem of the same name. Some poems in our workshop are ‘after’ Kaye’s work. Lesson Note: Writer/Performer Anna Deavere Smith who interviews people and […]

‘Esto libro es mi vida’: The ‘A’ List

This lesson circulated around the concept of lists. Through Albert Goldbarth’s List Poem, Library (truncated for our purposes here), we began class by making lists of nouns that described memories. The nouns were written […]

‘Is it-conta-gious? No-one-real-ly knows’: The Shakespearean Sonnet

In this class we focused on the Shakespearean Sonnet and iambic pentameter. In his Sonnet #127, William Shakespeare muses on beauty and its perception as a ‘currency’ in the modern world: ‘In the old […]

‘I am a pattern of the wild’: Emily Dickenson Etc…

We began this class with an exercise from writer and researcher Dr. Brene Brown’s book: Braving the Wilderness. In it, she asks a group of 8th Grade students the difference between the terms Belonging […]

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