CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIP 2023 – POETRY RESEARCH PROJECT
I am Hannah Maria Stanislaus and I have chosen Poetry in America for my Churchill Fellowship 2023 research project.
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Enhancing Digital Accessibility: Insights From My Internship at Poetry in America
My name is Michelle Liu, and I am currently a senior at Harvard College concentrating in computer science with a secondary in studio arts.
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2020 Production Diary: Looking for the Gulf Motel
Poetry is evocative, ethereal, emotional, transportive, but right now, poetry for me is a traffic jam on Florida’s Route 1.
Read MoreWalt Whitman Crossword
Season 2 of Poetry in America concludes with an ensemble cast–the largest of any Poetry in America episode–reading Walt Whitman, that most mythically capacious of American poets. The episode …
Read MoreFrom 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 MoreIt Was A Guessing Game Turned Magical
by 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 MoreFrom Beginners to Teachers: Our Story of Poetry
by 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 MoreAn Experiment in Blended Learning: Bringing Poetry in America for Teachers into My Classroom
by 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 MorePoetically Speaking: One Teacher’s Experience with Poetry in America in the Classroom
Stephanie 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.
Read MorePoetry, Podcasting, and the Problem of Audience
What if poetry content was something that everyone could easily follow without taking notes, a succession of complex ideas that unfolded themselves to the listener intuitively? Summer intern Brieanna Martin tries to answer this question as she works on the Poetry in America podcast, currently in production.
Read MorePoetic Diagnoses: The Art and Science of Close Reading
Where might one turn in order to understand the pain of people who encounter mental illness? According to Hemingway, and to Poetry in America intern and aspiring physician Lauren Claus, the answer might be poetry.
Read MoreThe Local Lyric: eTTo
Budding Massachusetts rapper/producer eTTo is a “lyrical chameleon” whose gruff voice and unconventional flow highlight his potential to emerge into the Hip Hop spotlight. One of our summer interns, Eniola Sodeke, produced a video to share eTTo’s work with the world.
Read MoreWe Hear America (dot com) Singing: But Who’s Listening?
Creating a meaningful discussion in a classroom poses its own set of difficulties; designing a discussion forum that creates a community online multiplies the face-to-face problems tenfold. We’re constantly asking ourselves: How do you get people to listen to each other online? One member of our Teaching Team weights in.
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