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 artfreak rated 11 months ago - From the page: "But the kids at the Governor's School had already gotten wind of drive-by poetry and were looking forward to it. This didn't surprise me; as one of the judges, I had helped select the group earlier in the year, and they were an iconoclastic bunch. Elizabeth, who went b... more
- Tags: poetry, empathy, writing, teaching, literature
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9 Reviews
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- AngelaHanson rated 6 months agopoetry
- what a wonderful teacher and what a great experience for these kids.
- Aurorasbored rated 9 months agopoetry
- Beautiful, the idea of a poetry stand for students to bring beauty to strangers.
- allen-taylor rated 10 months agoliterature, poetry, teaching
- Great article about how a high school teacher taught his literature students to write poetry on demand for no pay about the most mundane topics for total strangers.
- therealdrag0 rated 11 months agopoetry
- That's really cool. I like the Spanish part.
- TheNobody rated 11 months agopoetry
- Poetry students, too deeply ingrained with their own voices, learn empathy and flexibility with a "Poetry Stand"- like a lemonade stand that gives requested, instantaneous poetry instead of the cold drink.
I loved every minute of reading this story.
- HomeroB rated 11 months agopoetry
- Huh... maybe I'll try something like this with my students.
- artfreak rated 11 months agopoetry
- From the page: "But the kids at the Governor's School had already gotten wind of drive-by poetry and were looking forward to it. This didn't surprise me; as one of the judges, I had helped select the group earlier in the year, and they were an iconoclastic bunch. Elizabeth, who went by "Zebbi," wore Goth makeup, had piercings in her nose and eyebrow, and told us in the interview about her arrest record. Barbara, a heavyset girl, wore a bed sheet wrapped around her the entire time I was there. Briana wore wings -- wings -- attached to her back. Chandra, a beautiful Indian girl, had five pounds of hair growing from her head and was an untouchable in her native country. Haley was a mix-raced girl who wrote interesting and disturbing pieces about her parents. Darlene had the temerity to write: "We need to separate cocksuckers and sluts. Because they're not the same thing." Ruby was a lovable tomboy, full of sass, with glimpses of shyness. There were only two boys in the group. Ricky, a Latino kid from Atlantic City, made sure to include homosexual sex in every assignment he wrote. Jeff came off as the boy next door and wrote with clarity and lyricism."
- afreelancer rated 11 months agopoetry, writing
- How students learn poetry
- Seventeenkitties rated 11 months agopoetry
- I love this idea, too bad I don't have any gift for poetry.
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