Last week we were asked to write a list poem modeled on those written for the “I am From” project created by George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman. I can completely see where this could be an exercise for so many things in the classroom: creative writing, public speaking, getting to know yourself and others, being vulnerable. It certainly was so for us, and the poetry of my cohort members was moving and descriptively illuminating. I can, in my own, see both where I have limited my openness and where I have remembered treasures… It isn’t great, but it was fun to jot down. I may polish it up later, but in the interest of transparency, here it my first shot:
"I am from" poems
Last week we were asked to write a list poem modeled on those written for the “I am From” project created by George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman. I can completely see where this could be an exercise for so many things in the classroom: creative writing, public speaking, getting to know yourself and others, being vulnerable. It certainly was so for us, and the poetry of my cohort members was moving and descriptively illuminating. I can, in my own, see both where I have limited my openness and where I have remembered treasures… It isn’t great, but it was fun to jot down. I may polish it up later, but in the interest of transparency, here it my first shot: