This past summer, I tried a few informal poetry projects with the kids. I’m no expert on how to write poetry for beginners, but these books helped a ton!
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Top 5 Books for New Jersey, plus a biography about poet William Carlos Williams. There were a couple books about the indigenous Lenni Lenape tribe specific to New Jersey. They are listed here: Lenni Lenape booklist. G is for Garden State, link to read for free on archive.org “Readers will be delighted to discover the
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Phillis Wheatley was born around 1753 in what is perhaps present-day Senegal. She was enslaved and lived in Boston, Massachusetts with the Wheatley family where she was taught to read and write. Phillis became the first famous black poet in America, although she had to defend herself as the author of her poetry. She was
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