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And Again At Last We Ask: What Is Poetry?

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing This week the students at Amundsen approached our next to last class with the same question we started with: what is poetry? We read “Build, Now, a Monument” […]

Poetry at the Movies

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen went into the cinematic universe and looked at poetry that uses movie like techniques. We read “Please Refrain from Talking During […]

Reportage Poems

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing This week the students at Amundsen were just as excited for poetry as spring break. We explored reportage poems or poems that acted as journalistic reflection of the […]

Ars Poetica

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen got deep then went even deeper. We explored the Ars Poetica form and talked about urgency in writing. We read “Blk […]

Fun On The Internet!

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had fun on the internet. We read “Freedom” by Kimberly Ann Southwick and “Poem with Kennings and Nuka Cola” by Reilly […]

Blackouts and Centos

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had fun making their own blackout poems and centos. We talked about source texts and how the language of certain writings […]

Story Time

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen had a classic story time lesson. We talked about fairy tales and family memories we enjoyed. The poems we read this […]

Funny Ha Ha Poems, Kinda

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen tried their best at a difficult topic in poetry: humor. We read “The Moon” by David Berman and talked about how […]

Love Poems, Ugh

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen were in the Valentine’s Day valley of love poems. They were not excited. I’m kidding, I brought chocolate and they were […]

Chicago Over Everything

Ms. Widman High School Creative Writing   This week the students at Amundsen looked at prose poems and explored how pace can be reimagined in a formal structure that lacked line breaks and enjambment. […]

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