Poetry club

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

O Captain, My Captain.

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Blackout Poetry

There are some movies in your life that, perhaps due to when you watched them, leave an everlasting impact in your life. My life isn’t an exception. I watched Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society on Star [...]

Have you ever done a Google search for "poetry ideas" to teach in your high school English classroom? Let me spoil those search results for you - THEY'RE LAME! Poetry, especially at the high school level, it too important to be treated as a coloring activity, or worse,

These are what we stay alive for....

Set up on a street corner, at a bus stop, in a park with my Smith-Corona vintage blue typewriter, a jar of words, and some watercolor paints, I never know what to expect or who I will meet. Some approach Poetry on the Streets with trepidation; others dive right in; some decide to trust a stranger and take a risk.