Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Poet Works with Students at East Forsyth High School



Laura York’s English I students at East Forsyth High School are enjoying a four-day visit from poet-in-residence Chuck Sullivan. Sullivan is a published poet from Charlotte and has been doing residencies in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia for more than thirty-five years. 

He told students, “Poets save the things that have been lost in time…and it is the poet’s job to say as much as possible in as few words as possible.”  Sullivan is teaching students the value of poetry and how our own experiences can help us create beautiful and meaningful writing. 

York commented that many students who struggle and lack confidence are making fast progress, meaningful connections, and beautiful poetry. 

Sullivan is guiding the students in a workshop style forum to build and create powerful and meaningful images that connect the abstract to the concrete.  Abstract ideas like “time” and “secrets” are connected to concrete images using simile and metaphor. Mr. Sullivan emphasizes to students that for a poem to be a poem it must contain metaphor. 

Media coordinator, Mary Naber, who is also working closely with the classes, received a grant from the Kernersville Chamber to fund the event at East Forsyth High School. 


   




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