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Rhythm: “I need to shine like a star…

This week we read Gwendolyn Brook’s signature poem We Real Cool and talked about how rhythm is an essential element of writing poetry. Students then picked a favorite song and used it’s rhythm as […]

Personification: “I just want true answers…”

This week we read a poem written to a star by a former CPC student. Then talked about personification as a way to approach larger than life ideas, emotions or concepts. We learned that […]

Around the Table: “You give me comfort…”

This week we read Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo and discussed all of the different things that can happen around a kitchen or lunch table. Food, drama, games, gossip, a table […]

Quiet Poems: “For one minute, just hush…”

For our first session back after Spring Break, we had a few new faces join our 7th and 8th graders. We read The Quiet Machine, a prose poem, by Ada Limón and talked about […]

Time to get ready!

This week we started to get ready for our Clissold Elementary assembly! All of our after school Poetry Club participants will be reading an original poem in front of their classmates for the Student […]

All endings are beginnings…

We finished up the first half of our after school programming with Clissold students this week by bringing all of our Poetry Club participants together. After sharing a few sweet treats we read some […]

Magic Words

What could happen if your words were magic? This week our 2nd and 3rd graders wrote about just that after reading Magic Words, and Inuit Poem by Nalungiaq.   Magic Words Eva W. 3rd […]

Freewrite

This week, after our check-in, the Clissold poets dove into a conversation about the past, present, future, what we’ve learned and what we hope for. So we decided to write straight from the heart […]

Days of the Week

Why do Mondays feel like “Ugh!” and Fridays feel like “Yea!” This week we talked about how different days and times can conjure different kinds of feelings. Here’s a piece by Neia who let […]

New Word Poems

What is a word you love to say or that you identify with? If you could make up a word to describe a feeling you have what it be? This week our rockstar Clissold […]

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