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Where We’re From

21 Feb 2014

This week the Taft students and I read “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon, with a sprinkling of “Poem 22” by Jo Carson. We talked about all the things you can be from, […]

Reality Collision!!!! Introductions and Exquisite Corpses

7 Feb 2014

What better way to get to know each other than collaborative poems? For our first week together, the students at Taft read two rather curious poems: “Long-Term Memory” by James Tate and “Tell Me […]

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