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Making Sense out of the Senses

4 Dec 2020

The creative poets from the Evening Reporting Center wrote poems based off of their senses. Each poet wrote a 2 stanza, 10 line poem. In the first stanza they described something using each of […]

Silky Similes

19 Nov 2020

One of the most used literary devices in poetry are similes. One of the topics most written about is love! This week the poets explored both. Poets wrote similes about their secret love. They […]

City Poems

9 Nov 2020

One thing all of these poets have in common is the city they live in, Chicago. Chicago can be a marvelous town full of wonders and a cold crippling city with danger around every […]

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