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1. Writing Into Scary Times #2: Kindness Paves a Way

   Lisa M. O'Neill   ...

   dgoblirsch - 08/16/2021 - 10:16am

2. “The Hill We Climb”: Writing an Occasional Poem!

   ... Why? STEP 2: Read to learn a bit about occasional poetry and answer questions underneath. From the New York Times : What Is Occasional Poetry? Understanding the Tradition of “The Hill We Climb” As its name ...

   dgoblirsch - 09/28/2022 - 5:01pm

3. Tracing the Outlines of Home: Middle schoolers’ writing resiliency in a time of climate crisis

   ... Berkley Carnine   In “Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness,” Carolyn Forché writes, “The poem might be our only ... semester, I considered what it means to inadvertently teach poetry of witness as I saw these young poets seeking to make sense of the ...

   dgoblirsch - 06/03/2018 - 5:03pm

4. Towards Being Together: To Those Who Were Our First Gods

   ... humans. Nickole Brown fully embodies such an ecology in her poetry chapbook To Those Who Were Our First Gods . The poems collected here ... positing the “chain store sprawl” as a place worthy of poetry; a place in which communing with nature is not only possible but equally ...

   sgzemski - 09/02/2020 - 3:22pm

5. “Where Does Tomorrow Live?”

   ... remember if I borrowed this question from a deep-cut in the Poetry Center’s K-12 virtual lesson plan archive, or if I lifted it from the text that has become my default consultant for exploring poetry with young students, Writing Poems with Children by Elizabeth McKim ...

   dgoblirsch - 09/28/2022 - 11:44am

6. Never Had It Made: Poet Nikky Finney Visits CAPE School 

   ... will read later that night at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, sharing a powerful long poem that she composed about the life ... yet read this work and, on this day, is here to talk about poetry with youth in juvenile detention.  Earlier that week when I taught ...

   dgoblirsch - 07/17/2019 - 11:41am

7. How to Write a Love Poem (that doesn’t suck)

   ... poet Adrian Blevins noted that, "The problem with love poetry is that it must be felt and written by humans, who never feel one ... For even more inspiration, check out some of our favorite poetry recordings of love poems  on Voca. ...

   mgoodrich - 02/28/2026 - 11:05am

8. What we enact, replicate, and empower / the work that is there

   ... other things as well—it’s a mixup between poets that the Poetry Center has recently engaged (Timothy Liu is a great poet in his own ... While these courses are taught outside the purview of the Poetry Center (and the UA Creative Writing MFA program, which is a separate UA ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:35pm

9. Test Page

   ... their voice. In the fall and spring of each year, the Poetry Center places teams of writers in local classrooms to lead creative ... time. Schools can select programs in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. At the end of most programs, the ...

   jdraper - 04/05/2017 - 10:07am

10. From the Stacks: Margarita Engle

    ... Other Poems by Jorge Guillén, trans. Cola Franzen Poetry for Young People by Langston Hughes, illus. Benny Andrews ... sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:35pm

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