When we have student taught poetry seminars, students have writing response time where they can free write, practice diploma-exam personal response writing (to the prompt provided), or practice ap-exam poetic analysis.  Here are examples of students’ polished writing to these poetry seminars:

• Ibukun – poetry response to “Art vs. Trade” by James Weldon Johnson
  • & poetry free response to “Series 2 (Turkish Red) by Lale Mulder

 

• Jieo – play from “We Shoot Children Too, Don’t We” by Dan Almagor
  • & poetic response to “We Shoot Children Too, Don’t We”?

 

• Tarannum – poetic response to “On Beauty” by Kahlil Gibran

 

• Ziyana – poetic response to “Remember the Moon Survives” by Barbara Kingsolver

 

• Yasmeen – poetic response and analysis to “Dream within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe

 

• Maria – short story to faiz ahmed faiz

 

• Abhay – poetry analysis to Byron’s poem “Darkness”

 

• Nimrat, Mia, Natalie – poetry analysis to “Art vs. Trade” by James Weldon Johnson

 

• Muhammad – poetry response to “On Beauty” by Kahlil Gibran

 

• Hijab – poetic response to “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood
  • and Hijab and Preet’s Poetic Analysis to “Siren Song”

 

• Kelley – poetic response to “We Shoot Children Too, Don’t We” by Dan Almagor

 

• Liza – poetic response to “Kaddish” by Allen Ginsberg

 

• Timi – poetic response to “Where There’s A Wall” by Joy Kogawa

 

Poetry Seminars:

• El Salvadore’s Enrique “Quique” Nimrat, Maria, Mia 
• Argentina’s Juan Gellman – Luca and Jimmy