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Posts Tagged: Poetry

  • May 23, 2014

    Lucy Larcom: Memoirs of a Mill Girl in Lowell

    BY Danielle Beeber

    “Oh, what questionings of fate, and freedom, and how evil came, and what death is, and what the life to come, passed to and fro among these girls!”

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • August 23, 2013

    Brooklyn Poem Prodigy

    BY Monika Zaleska

    Brooklyn native Nathalia Crane was just nine years old when she published her first poem in The New York Sun (they thought they were publishing an adult).

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • February 27, 2013

    Pregnancy and Poetry in High School

    BY Claire Lucido

    “Graduated 2009.” Powerful reading of a powerful poem.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • September 28, 2012

    Iseult Gonne

    BY Claire Lucido

    Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • July 24, 2012

    Beat Generation

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to a group of students (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Hal Chase & others) who in 1948 challenged their conservative, formulaic writing professors at Columbia University.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 24, 2012

    Henry Parland: Nordic Rimbaud

    BY Daniel Carlin

    My lies:
    large, red balloons
    that I buy on the street
    and release into the heavens.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • September 8, 2011

    The Stepney School Strike of 1971

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Chris Searle, a beloved student-teacher, was fired from his teaching job after publishing a book of poems entitled ‘Stepney Words’ written by his pupils.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • July 6, 2011

    To Whom it Concerns

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJF2FUKV84

    Precious moments on Roseanne—rough and tumble, 13 year old, Darlene is forced to read her poem aloud at her junior high school’s “culture night”.

    FROM:Tube Time

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