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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 […]

On Monday at Perez, we talked about personification, and how it can help us write about larger than life ideas, like time, emotions or nature. We also explored how we can personify everyday objects […]

If you could ask the moon anything you wanted, what would you ask? And what would it say if it could respond? This week we talked about personification after reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem […]

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 […]

Edit, revise, edit revise! Poems take time and we don’t always have enough of it, especially as we’re nearing the end of our time together at Simpson. Between field trips, testing, and getting ready […]

This week we talked about some of our favorite words, expressions, and phrases after reading “Hecky Naw” by Jose Olivarez. Students picked a word or phrase they use and created their own definitions for […]

Are you hungry for more poems? Our Foster Park 8th graders finished up their food poems this week and they are sure to leave your stomach growling. Enjoy this weeks poets!   Noodles Damian […]

Sometimes one session just isn’t enough to finish a poem. This week we read “Hecky Naw” by Jose Olivarez a poem about words and how they can represent parts of our identity. I had […]

This week we read Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Trippin’ and talked about about how we celebrate ourselves. Then the students had an opportunity to ego trip for a bit and write a poem where they […]

Food Glorious Food! We started by thinking of a hypothetical situation: If aliens were coming to earth to take you away to their planet, what is the one dish you would absolutely have to […]

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