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ARCADIA'S
QUI VIVE!
Center
for Writing, Book Arts,
and Performance
Arcadia
Unversity's Qui Vive! Center for Writing, Book Arts,
and Performance helps Philadelphia-area middle and
secondary students believe in themselves as writers
and poets through the process of experimenting,
manipulating, and performing the written word. We
believe that youth who think of themselves as competent
and creative writers produce powerful and interesting
writing, both creative and analytic. These poems
were created during our Fall after-school poetry
workshop focusing on the list poem. Qui Vive! was
created by and is run by Arcadia professors Leif
Gustavson and Tyler Doherty. For more information
about Qui Vive! or to listen to some of their poets
reading their work, check out their Web site: www.arcadia.edu/quivive
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NOT YOUR MAMA'S HAIKU
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POETRY
WORKSHOP
Forgotten
Voices Poetry Group
Take
a Dip in the Pool of Words! A workshop for all ages.
Learn how to write poetry, listen to poetry, and
write your own poetry.
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POETRY
MIND MAPPING
Forgotten
Voices Poetry Group
In
the center circle, put the key word of your topic.
Write several other associated words or ideas in
surrounding circles and draw lines connecting them
to the center circle. Write words associated with
each one of those and place them in nearby circles,
connected with lines. You may have any number of
related or clustered words. They can be key words
for your poem, or anything related to your topic
or emotion. Select a cluster and write about it.
Continue with another cluster, and create another
poem! The
Parking Lot is where we put all the words that came
up after the "Spider Web" was complete.
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ABINGTON
FRIENDS SCHOOL
The
Whole Tree, 2009
Abington
Friends School in Jenkintown has a long tradition
of teaching children and teens to write creatively.
These are poems selected from THE WHOLE TREE, their
2009 high school literary magazine. Discover and
enjoy their individual and imaginative art!
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NORTH
PENN VALLEY
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
The
Montgomery County Poet Laureate program will be
facilitating a unique an exciting Poetry Wits class
for a fortunate group of members at the North Penn
Valley Boys & Girls Club. Starting in May the
kids will have the opportunity to work with Joanne
Leva and her cast of poet laureates on creating
and presenting poetry. The program will conclude
with Club members presenting their works of wonder
to their peers after school.
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STUDENT
POETRY NOIR
Montco
Poetry Program
The
mission of Student Poetry Noir is to explore the
universal moments presented or "spoken"
in Black-and-White films with poetry writing. We
will feature a film clip and challenge to capture
in words the poetry the film clips suggest to you.
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CREATIVE
WRITING IDEAS
with
Marie Kane
Hi,
my name is Marie Kane (read
bio), and I have taught Creative Writing
in Central Bucks School District for over twenty
years. One thing everyone who has taken my classes
knows about me is that I am a stickler for getting
"the right words in the right order."
This definition of poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
a British poet, is, however, not as easy as it sounds.
Here's what happens - we think, OK, sure - the right
words, why, there they are, on the page in the right
order - hmmm… how's that, OK, done! Then you
reread it later, or someone else reads it, and suddenly,
the word 'bright' is NOT the right word - maybe
it is 'brilliant', or 'vivid', or 'dazzling', or
'glowing' or another word, and maybe you decide
that 'bright' is not the idea you want to convey
at all - maybe it is not one of light, but intensity.
Then you find another word or even line that is
not quite right, and you have to revise that one,
taking into consideration the intent of the poem
in the first place - which, of course, can change
at any time. And so it goes.
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BENJAMIN
RUSH
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Creative
Writing Lessons
Six
local Pennsylvania poets participated in this creative
writing project with 5th and 6th grades at Benjamin
Rush Elementary School in Bensalem, PA in February
/ March 2009: Joanne Leva, Camille Norvaisas, Elizabeth
Rivers, David Simpson, Wendy Steginsky and Bill
Wunder. Guide: Rose, Where Did you Get that Red?
by Kenneth Koch. Using Koch's innovative ideas,
this lesson plan is based on reading good poetry
to children and suggesting an assignment based on
those poems.
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