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“Silky because you like soft things” Texture with South Loop Poetry Club!

Last week at South Loop Poetry Club, our poets read “The Texture Of Your Soul” by Linda Winchell, using feelings as sensory intrigue to represent our feelings as emotions. We got out the markers […]

“The sweet sounds of Morning are…” Sounds and Noises with South Loop Poetry Club!

Last week at South Loop Poetry Club, we read “Sounds of the City” by Rita A. Simmonds. Even though she was writing about New York, we found that we heard very similar sounds in […]

“We’re at a party” Imagery with South Loop Poetry Club!

We hope you have been staying warm in this cold Chicago weather. Last week we didn’t have Poetry Club, but the week before that we read Natasha Trethewey’s “History Lesson” to learn about imagery. […]

Happy Holidays from South Loop Poetry Club!

On our last Poetry Club session of 2023, our poets took some time to sit with the poems they’ve made over the last few months and discuss what they were about, and what they […]

“La Vetura” Our Final Class!

In our final week at Dulles, we continued to refine and edit our poems to prepare for the Dulles Poetry Reading, with two other poetry classes led by Caroline Stevens and Joy Young from […]

“The sounds of friends laughing” Imagery and Memory with South Loop Poetry Club!

This week at South Loop Poetry Club, our poets studied imagery and asked ourselves, how can we put someone else in our shoes? Using Nikki Giovanni’s Knoxville, Tennessee, we drew inspiration from the different […]

“Language — Conversation — All poetry” Editing Poems with Dulles

During our 4th week at Dulles, we read an erasure poem from Austin Kleon’s “Newspaper Blackout” to start a conversation about editing our work and how to recycle pieces of poetry to make something […]

“My cat is the ocean on a sunny day.” Metaphors and loved ones with South Loop Poetry Club

This week at South Loop Poetry Club, we read Francisco X. Alarcón’s “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon.” Our young poets raced to see who could find the most similes and metaphors. Since […]

“I smelled the smell of Winter Air” Odes and Ekphrastics with Dulles

At Dulles, we discussed and learned about two types of poems that represent memory with imagery. We read Nikki Giovanni’s ‘knoxville, tennessee’, which inspired us to reflect on our Thanksgiving dinners and other happy […]

“I am (Umm good cool and stuff)” Self Reflective Poems with South Loop Poetry Club

This week at South Loop Elementary School, we listened to “Everything at Once” by Lenka to talk about similes and comparisons. The young poets then began to think about their selves and answer the […]

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