SAL/ON

A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures

Category: Writers in the Schools

“Full Moon,” by Josephine Jensen

Full Moon My name is Full Moon but you could call me a cluster of matter ready to pop I believe in protecting humanity, the Earth doesn’t I am made up of my father, womanhood, Erykah Badu I come fro...

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WITS Voices: Evergreen Speaks

By Maiah Merino, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first year with Writer in the Schools, I taught 9th grade poetry at Evergreen High School in Burien, four classes, three of which were English Language Lea...

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WITS Voices: Puesta del Sol and its New Poets

By Evelin Garcia, WITS Writer-in-Residence   Puesta del Sol y sus nuevos poetas El día de elegir al lector del año que representará a la escuela Puesta del Sol  llegó después de 8 sesiones ...

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WITS Voices: When A Child Dies

By Ann Teplick, WITS Writer-in-Residence For the past eight years, I have been a teaching artist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. I have witnessed love, empathy, laughter, celebrations and grief on a...

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WITS Voices: Poetry as Disruption

By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first-ever WITS residency started off with a fire drill. I’d made it about halfway through my introduction when the loudspeaker cut me off with a...

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