From Student to Teacher: the Max Shenkin Story
by Max Shenkin This post is one in a short series of reflections by students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA, who enrolled in …
Read Moreby Max Shenkin This post is one in a short series of reflections by students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA, who enrolled in …
Read Moreby Lillian Son This post is one in a short series of reflections by students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA, who enrolled in …
Read Moreby Lillian Son and Max Shenkin The following blog posts were written by Lillian (Lilly) Son and Max Shenkin, students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San …
Read Moreby Khriseten Bellows This post was written by Khriseten Bellows, who led a group of high-school students in a blended-learning version of the Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman …
Read MoreA few months ago, we sat down with U2 frontman Bono and US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to read the Allen Ginsberg anti-war poem “Hum Bom!”
Read MoreProf. Elisa New sat down with hip hop legend Nas to do a close-reading at “It Ain’t Hard to Tell,” a track from his iconic 1994 album Illmatic.
Read MoreStephanie Yewdell, an English Language Arts teacher at Success Academy Harlem North Central, reflects on the fear and joy she encountered teaching poetry in the middle school classroom– with a little help from Poetry in America.
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