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Youth poetry Writing Summer Camps Session 3: poetry Fundamentals for Rising 6th–8th Graders

  • Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park 339 North Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, IL, 60302 United States (map)

Class 2: Rising 6th–8th Graders (AUGUST 11-15)

Class 2 (8/11-8/15): Poetry for Rising 6th-8th graders

Students in this poetry class will develop their poetry toolkits and write poems in the form of letters written to a range of subjects of their personal choosing. Students will explore writing in a variety of poetic forms including erasure poems, persona poems, and odes. Students will learn about poets who have used their own personal letter-writing practices as a way of generating and finding material for poems. 

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