Love Poems -_________-

This week the young Viking writers explored love poems by reading Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” and Kim Addonizio’s “My Heart”. The writers were tasked with writing a love poem to a person, place, or themselves. I am so amazed by these students every week, but this week every single one of them wrote something I could shout from the rooftops. I am so beyond proud. Here’s this week’s superstars:

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