Come join us in Michael Library (MRC) TODAY for Poetry Workshops led by Northwestern University's Prof. Rachel Jamison Webster during Periods 1, 2, and 3 and by Adam Gottlieb during Periods 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. Adam will be back again in MRC tomorrow leading workshops, too (see above flyer), then make sure to join us THURSDAY during lunch periods 4, 5, and 6 for our annual Poetry Week Open Mic!
It's Poetry Week again here at ETHS! Yesterday, returning Poetry Week Guru Adam Gottlieb, special guest Kendria "K-Love" Harris, and ETHS's own Spoken Word Club rocked the Upstairs Theater.
Come join us in Michael Library (MRC) TODAY for Poetry Workshops led by Northwestern University's Prof. Rachel Jamison Webster during Periods 1, 2, and 3 and by Adam Gottlieb during Periods 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. Adam will be back again in MRC tomorrow leading workshops, too (see above flyer), then make sure to join us THURSDAY during lunch periods 4, 5, and 6 for our annual Poetry Week Open Mic!
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April is National Poetry Month, and, to celebrate, the MRC is once again hosting our annual Poetry Week THIS WEEK, April 1 -- April 5! (Don't forget to attend our workshops and Open Mic -- click here for more details!) To help kick things off, here are two classic poems that feature heavily in two different, but very well-known YA novels: "Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost (as featured in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders) Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
ETHS's annual Poetry Week Celebration will take place this year April 1 through April 5. We know -- what a fantastic way to start the stretch after Spring Break!
This year we're very excited to be welcoming a new presenter, Adam Gottlieb, son of ETHS's very own Mr. Gottlieb and one of the featured poets from the award-winning documentary Louder Than a Bomb, which chronicled the preparations and performances of a handful of students competing in the 2008 annual Chicago Teen Poetry Festival. (Click HERE to see Adam's performance of "Poet Breathe Now" from the film.) We hope to see as many of you as possible come in with your teachers and classmates for our presentations and workshops (see flyer above); HOWEVER you are also welcome to attend any of them during your free periods. And, of course, everyone is encouraged stop by our Open Mic during lunch periods on Friday to read your own poetry or just to listen to and encourage your fellow Wildkits! ***Quick Note: MRC will be closed to regular classes, drop-ins, and Study Hall students during workshop times on Tuesday and Wednesday and during Friday's Open Mic. We ask that anyone who does visit MRC during those times do so with the intent to participate in that day's Poetry Week events. Thank you for your cooperation! |
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