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To continue prepping for our collaboration with and field trip to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the students and made one more poem from the music of Carnival of the Animals, specifically, the movement called […]

This week I asked the students about their wishes–both attainable, every day wishes, and the most wild fantasies they could imagine. The students had a whole lot of fun with this one, as you […]

This week we read an exerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked […]

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a […]

This week we read the delectable “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, in which he expertly maneuvers the “sorry, not sorry” faux-apology. As enjoyable as Williams’ poem is, it is even […]

This week I had to distinct pleasure of writing poems to music with the Darwin Elementary 2nd and 3rd Graders. As part of the Poetry Center’s Collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, our students […]

This week the Darwin 2nd & 3rd graders read Blake’s “Tyger” and then wrote a poem to a mysterious animal. For their poem, they could ask the animal any questions they wished. You might […]

Week Two and its Halloween! The students and I read two poems: “October,” by Bobbi Katz, and “Theme In Yellow,” by Carl Sandburg. We discussed persona and voice, and how you might transform into […]

What a busy week! The very first of our residency is always jam packed: we’ve got to get to know each other, talk about what to expect, pass out poetry folders, and then get […]

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