On Friday, our last day of the Agora week, we went downtown to the Poetry Foundation, talked about some poems by Chicago poets and authors (Gwendolyn Brooks, Jamila Woods, and Sandra Cisneros), and then engaged in a Writer's Workshop to create our own poetry.
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| A wall of photographs taken in one month by photographer Bernadette Mayer. |
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| The library- entirely dedicated to volumes of poetry |
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| The workshop space, where the magic took place |
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| Our token senior at work |
H. Melt, the poetry aficionado and our guide on
this literary journey, presented three different prompts to guide the writing of our own poems. All had some connection back to one of the three works we read as a group (Brooks' "a song in the front yard," Woods' "Daddy Dozens," and an excerpt from the first chapter of Cisneros'
The House on Mango Street. The first prompt was to physically describe some aspect of our home and/or something we would like to change about it; the second was to describe the relationship we have with a family member, and the third was to discuss/explore the multiple places that we call home. After writing our individual pieces, we read them aloud to the whole group. Mrs. Fox, Ms. Mocarski, and I participated, too!
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| Our final group shot (featuring H. Melt). I just noticed that they're all smiling in the same way... |
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