by [email protected] | Dec 7, 2021 | News & Media, Poetry
The Missoula Writing Collaborative has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1994, when poet Sheryl Noethe launched a creative writing pilot program at 5 Missoula schools. The pilot program aimed to teach kids to love to write through poetry. With its focus...
by [email protected] | Dec 2, 2019 | Monday Poems, Poetry
This poem was read by Arlee 5th grader Trevor at the annual reading at Salish and Kootenai College on November 19th: the stars can lead you to where you want to go but they can take you away they can push you up they can pull you down the stars are helpful and not...
by [email protected] | Aug 6, 2019 | Monday Poems, Poetry
A poem by Elizabeth from our Words With Wings Summer Camp: I see the water against the rocks, and wonder does it, too, wish to be free? Is it not satisfied with everywhere it can go, does it want to be on land? I put myself in its place. I become water. I twist and...
by [email protected] | Apr 29, 2019 | Monday Poems, Poetry
“DSC_0530″by matthew mclalin is licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Kat, a 4th-grader from Russell School He gave me a snowglobe, nothing special not an expensive cloth or a plastic toy, but only a glittery snowglobe from Nashville. She gave me a box of thin sand...
by [email protected] | Apr 2, 2019 | Monday Poems, Poetry
Poetry Is A group poem by Sharon Jones 4th Grade, Lewis & Clark School Poetry is the meadowlark and poetry is the monster under my bed Poetry is a pump of life, the sparks dancing around the fire Poetry can be cold as the north wind and a lonely cave at night...
by [email protected] | Dec 4, 2018 | Monday Poems, Poetry
The Dance (inspired by collaboration with Ballet Beyond Borders) by Charlie, Dixon School I see, a graceful swan skipping on water. Then it’s dark, then you see a volume of shadows prancing like a grasshopper. Then I see two strings, forming into a knot, then they let...
