Creative Writing Students Perform in Poetry Slam
November 21, 2019
Funded by a gift from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, poet Geof Hewitt, of Calais, VT, spent a week with Ms. Silver's Creative Writing class and a week with Ms. MacGregor's. Sitting at desks arranged in a circle, Geof had the students write pages worth of poems each day, writing in 7-minute bursts with the goal of quantity over quality. They competed for how much they could produce! Geof pushed the writers to revise, during class, with an eye toward stronger verbs, using forms of "to be" as little as possible; to consider number of syllables; to experiment with the effect...
