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Erasure

Today, we read Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s erasure of Putin’s speech declaring war on Ukraine. https://www.rattle.com/mir-in-ukraine-by-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach/ We talked about why she chose that particular text to erase and the power she was able to take […]

Poems as Superheroes–6th grade

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, […]

Poems as Superheroes–8th Grade

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade class, we read Blk Girl Art by Jamila Woods and discussed what we want poems to be able to do in the world. We imagined our poems as superheroes, […]

Our revisions!

In Ms. Budzileni’s 8th grade, we spent some time revising poems that we had already written and were excited about. We had a poetry reading and the student’s did an amazing job! My Name […]

Love poems!

In Ms. Budzileni’s class, we read Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” in class and loved the specificity and humor! Many of us said that being so specific about someone […]

Love poems!

In Mrs. Robinson-Sanchez’s class, we read Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” in class and loved the specificity and humor! Many of us said that being so specific about someone […]

Love Poems

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s class, we read Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” in class and loved the specificity and humor! Many of us said that being so specific about someone […]

Can Poetry Take Care of Us?

In Ms. Robinson-Sanchez’s class, we read “Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab-Nye and discussed whether or not we thought a poem could take care of a person. Most of us thought it could! We wrote […]

Can Poetry Change an Event

In Ms. Budzelin’s 8th grade class, we read Eve Ewing’s “Four Boys on Ellis [a re-telling],” in which Ewing creates a new, magical, and freeing ending for an instance of racism. We had a […]

Can Poetry Change an Event?

In Ms. Mild-Thomas’s 6th grade class, we read Eve Ewing’s “Four Boys on Ellis [a re-telling],” in which Ewing creates a new, magical, and freeing ending for an instance of racism. We had a […]

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