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Blackouts and Erasure Poetry

This week the young viking writers escaped the cold through playing with blackout and erasure poetry. Our source text was back issues of Tin House magazine and I’m so proud of how they changed […]

Love Poems -______-

This week the young viking writers were eager to try their hand at love poems–a topic they have been excited to write for weeks. They read and thoroughly enjoyed Matthew Olzmann’s “Mountain Dew Commercial […]

Chicago Over Everything

This week the young vikings explored prose poetry. They read Hanif Abdurraqib’s “When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind Of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan” and “The Fight in the Meadow” by […]

First This Happened, Then This, But Before That

This week the young Viking writers used vintage photos to write stories in a poetic form about strangers. They used Warsan Shire’s poem “Backwards” as inspiration on how to write mirror poems. I’m proud […]

Funny Ha Ha Poems

This week the young vikings read David Berman’s “The Moon” https://poets.org/poem/moon-1 The poets were then challenged to brainstorm a typical day in high school but to subvert it with surrealism. I’m so proud of […]

Like a Simile

This week the young Viking writers were challenged with writing quickfire similes after reading “Like a Simile” by Mark Cox. They partnered up and did a quick surrealist writing exercise then were asked to […]

Epic Epic Epic

This week the young vikings read Brigit Peegen Kelly’s “The Leaving” and were tasked with writing a poem in an epic manner describing something they are proud of. This is a fantastic group of […]

What in the World of a Poem?

This week the young Vikings read Rachel Richardson’s “Questions” and wrote lyric poetry exploring their own questions about poetry, life, and the world. I am so proud of the poets below. “Content” by Dawan […]

A New Challenger Has Entered The Arena

I’m so excited for this batch of young Viking writers. This week the poets read Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving” and were tasked with writing a poem in an epic manner about something they […]

It’s Spring, I hate it: Nature Poems

This week the young viking writers were tasked with writing nature poems. The students read “Earthly Meditations” by Robert Wrigley, “Dear One Absent This Long Time” by Lisa Olstein, and “Today” by Billy Collins. […]

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