Poetry is a gift. Not one you give away forever or keep all for yourself. Poetry is a gift that you share and which grows the more it’s given. This…
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poetry Archives - Poetic Youth
On April 19th, four facilitators from San Diego State University visited Monarch School in downtown San Diego to run a poetry workshop for a group of 2nd – 4th graders….
On March 11th, five facilitators from SDSU lead a poetry workshop at Monarch School in downtown San Diego. Monarch School serves youth impacted by homelessness and is the only school…
Poetic Youth returned to Monarch School on October 13th for an after-school poetry workshop extravaganza. We were joined by young poets in grades 3-8 for an afternoon of metaphor-making and…
by Theodore Bruni The Poetic Youth partnership that I am currently involved in provides weekly poetry workshops to San Diego Global Vision Academy (SDGVA) in the Normal Heights neighborhood of…
By Allison Lynn At the table in front of me, thirteen first-graders are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder along the benches we’ve pushed together against a wall in the cafeteria—though, to be fair,…
Tonnetta Walcott As a member of Poetic Youth, I am also a facilitator for Hoover High School’s Creative Writing Club. The club works with students between the ages of 13-18…
by Koichi Matsuyama We are Poetic Youth volunteers from San Diego State University and our objective is for the 3rd-4th grade students of Monarch School to have fun with poetry and satisfy…