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Kevin Stein's Audio/Video Interviews State of Illinois- Illinois Emerging Writers Competition |
Illinois Youth PoetryTo encourage poetry writing among our state's youth, the Laureate's website highlights noteworthy poems written by those age eighteen and under. My goal is to demonstrate that poetry is an art form hospitable to the young. It answers their need to reflect on life's experiences and gives meaning and order to these events. Doing so, young people discover not only the language to express their thoughts and emotions but also the pleasures of language itself. Writing a poem, then, becomes a means for the young to learn equally notions of selfhood and modes of language that express and thus define them. As added benefit, we adults are privy to what the young have to say and how they say it. We thereby deepen our understanding of the range of challenges children face in the contemporary world. Click on names and/or titles to view poem and/or artwork. First names only listed for privacy. Courtenay Language Arts Center, 4th gradeMario - When I went to Joel's House Juan - Summer: The Land and the Lake Marisa - The Mixed-Up Christmas Poem Marisa - How to Torture A Substitute Teacher
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