Just Imagine in Springfield: A Poetry Handbook for Middle School Students

by Marïa Luisa Arroyo Mfa

Overview

This poetry handbook will appeal to many: ELA and ESL middle school teachers, after-school enrichment coordinators, middle school students curious about poetry, and more! Here you will find accessible, original poems by the award-winning multilingual poet and educator, María Luisa Arroyo. who has 15+ years of experience teaching community-based poetry to poets of all ages in all stages. Here, too, you will be awed by the courage and vulnerability that the student poems convey. The overarching message? Every individual is inherently creative. Here are a few tools to try.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781723512889
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/26/2018
Series:	My Words, My Voice , #1
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Born in Manatí, Puerto Rico and raised in Springfield (MA), María Luisa Arroyo was educated at Colby (BA), Tufts (MA), and Harvard (ABD) in German, her third language. She earned an MFA in Poetry from the low-residency Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College. In recognition of her community-based poetry workshops and readings, María Luisa was named the 2014 Carlos Vega Community Champion Award, the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Springfield (MA) (2014-2016) and 2016 NEPR Arts & Humanities Award recipient. Her poems are published in many journals, including CHEST Journal, CALYX: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, and in anthologies such as Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Her poetry collections include Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras (Bilingual Review/Press: 2008) and two chapbooks, Flight (2016) and Destierro Means More than Exile (2018).