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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 […]

Winter Poems

As Spring fast approaches here in Chicago it was nice to take a moment to think about winter. Our 2nd and 3rd graders wrote a few sentences about the arctic season and then exchanged […]

Winter Poems

This week we had a snowball fight! Well, it was more of metaphorical, poetic one. After answering a few writing prompts inspired by winter, the poets crumpled up their pieces of paper into snowballs […]

What’s In a Name?

What is the story of your name? If you could change it to something else would you? This week we had an opportunity to think about another aspect of our identities by sharing poems […]

Food Poems

Food glorious food! This week our after school Poetry Club wrote about all things yum. We talked about comfort foods, foods that make us feel at home and foods that are important to the […]

Dream Poems

Have you ever had a dream that woke you up and made you go “Huh?!” This week, we shared some of the weird and zany things that happen in our dreams. From talking pies […]

Where I’m From

What is home? How does it shape who we are in the world? These are a few of the questions we pondered this week after reading Willie Perdomo’s poem “Where I’m From”. Students at […]

Getting Started

For our first session at Simpson Academy for Young Women, we spent the session introducing ourselves. I asked the class to share their names, what part of the city they reside in, and what […]

I am Poems

We read Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Trippin’ this week, and used it as inspiration to talk about ourselves, using metaphors and comparison to celebrate all the facets of who we are.   I’m so Toxic […]

Comparison Poems

The 2nd and 3rd grade girls in our after school Poetry Club are rocking this poetry thing! This week we talked about how using comparisons in our poems could help us express our feelings […]

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