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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 […]

What’s In a Name?

This week, we talked about the importance of our names. We shared stories about their significance and their origins and how our names might even fit our personality.   My Name Brooke J. 7th […]

Poems about Sounds

This week we read poems about sounds. We talked about all of the different kinds of sounds that surround us, and the ones we we hear everyday. We talked about sounds we love to […]

Where I’m From

Clissold’s 7th and 8th graders got right to it this week, with poems about the places, people and things that make them who they are. We talked about what home is, and how it […]

I Wish

I’m so excited to be working with an amazing group of 2nd and 3rd grade girls at Clissold. They have so much to say! For this session we talked about all of the wild […]

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