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Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera and writer and translator Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico protests.
Poetry Inside Out
Poetry Inside Out is a collaborative language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity, builds literacy skills, improves critical thinking, and unlocks creativity by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. By practicing the art of translation, students become familiar with the building blocks of language and the full range of expression available to them as readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and world citizens.
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“I came away thinking of the book as an attempt to forge a more humane means of expression, one that could surmount all our fears and failures.”
November 18, 2019 -
In letters, Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics
November 15, 2019 -
Cat’s out of the bag, folks.
November 1, 2019
She looked out the porthole: the sea was an inky navy blue, and the boat was softly creaking from side to side. How incredibly different the sea was when you were at the beach swimming in it than when you were aboard a ship looking down at it, hard and impenetrable as a marble tabletop streaked with green.