February 2012
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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is the...”
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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If the world was my classroom I would take my girl to see the under-privileged,
If the world was my classroom I would take my girl to see the middle-class,
If the world was my...
She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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I sit with my student
On the edge of a cloud
With the classroom below
Her eagerness glows bright
I teach her the joy and pain of womanhood
I teach her the binding love of...
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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A girl is no less than any kind of man
She can be as successful as any kind of guy can
I keep hearing the world tell us that a female has her place
I thought we were all equal...
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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I would teach you to enjoy the silence.
It’s happy silence, heavy and wrapping.
Breathe in the turbulence of the world and
Release it to the wind, filling the hungry...
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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If the world was my classroom, I would teach a girl about what and who makes up this world.
I would take her to Egypt to observe the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of...
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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Dear nine year old girl,
Enjoy the days when you and your dad would twirl.
Before you know it time flies
And soon you will be in junior high.
Don’t worry this is your...
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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Be passionate
Be passionate about life
Enthusiastically
Be passionate about love
Unconditionally
Be passionate about others
Selflessly
Be passionate about knowledge
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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Lessons I absorbed
through penetrable snakeskin,
every line a year of stumbles and mistakes
adding up like hard raindrops
In my arms she is shielded
by all my...
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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She's the First Poetry Month 2012 Submission!
Students were asked to write a poem answering the question:
If the World Was Your Classroom, What Would you teach a girl?
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It doesn’t matter how much you weigh,
if you’re straight, lesbian, or gay,
you are beautiful in every way.
Tell yourself this every day,
then and only...
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Original Poetry from the STF Poetry Team
Doing New Identity Samantha Neugebauer
Lao women in America learn to say I’m tired tam mak hung Can things ever been restored? When girls start to talk like women, a language is invented.
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Wet-rice field walking leaving the Plain of Jars polygamy And into urban metal warehouses Lao men cry performance error, where have our women gone in immigrant America?
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“Every
heart writes a different letter
of winter to its cold.
Icicles on sheet...”
– Inspiration!
She’s the First Poetry Anthology is accepting submissions. Submit your poem today and #VoiceYourVerse! 100% of proceeds from the anthology will go to girls’ education.
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Allison Titus, from “Inclement” (via yesyes)
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Poet Jeff Daniel Marion speaks of discoveries in...
Find Inspiration for #VoiceYourVerse She’s the First Poetry Anthology by reading about American Poets and their individual stories.
“Poetry prepares us to be better readers and listeners, more alert to the complexities of language, both written and oral. It prepares us to see through and not be swayed by dishonest uses of language, the pretentiousness of political rhetoric and its...
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“To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge,...”
– Jean Craighead George (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask...
soworthloving:
*Howard Thurman
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Demand Poetry! →
Be inspired by Elizabeth Howard, a woman who used poetry to reshape her life and profession. “The idea was simple: Give Howard a topic, and she’ll tap out an original, free-verse poem about it. Just for you.” She might sit under a tree and write it for you in an hour or you might email her and she will work on it at home.
Read...
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