Poetry
Noche de los Libros: Celebración de Louise Glück, Nobel Literatura 2020
Celebración de la poeta estadounidense Louise Glück, ganadora del premio Nobel de Literatura 2020. Lectores: Estudiantes de Aquinas American School — Madrid. Con motivo de la celebración de la Noche de los Libros 2020, estudiantes de Aquinas American School presentan una selección de poemas de Louise Glück en colaboración con American Space Madrid. La lectura
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY AND PROSE POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “IF THIS IS YOUR FINAL DESTINATION” BY NICK FLYNN
This month’s poem, “If This is Your Final Destination” (2015), by Nick Flynn, mixes the mundane with the metaphysical, as the speaker meditates on the large, almost unanswerable questions of existence—what happens to us when we die?—and tries to string together a coherent narrative out of his past, present, and future. These different epochs of
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY AND PROSE POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “POETRY” BY MARIANNE MOORE
This month’s poem, “Poetry,” by Marianne Moore, is a curious little poem. Moore wrote the first version of this poem in 1924, and then spent nearly five decades revising it, finally settling on a three-line version that she included in her 1967 volume, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (You can read the two versions
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – POETRY AND PROSE POETRY: “MARGARET” BY SPENCER REECE
Summer is over, autumn is here, and our monthly poetry reading group is back! This year brings us some exciting new developments. We are now called the English Reading Circle: Poetry and Prose Poetry (sister group to the English Reading Circle: Short Stories); and as this new name indicates, we will be expanding our reading
Student poets in Kids’ Club
Kids’ Club students have just finished a poetry unit with their teacher, Alicia. They read lots of different types of poetry, and then they wrote and illustrated their own poems. Have a look at their work. Great work, everyone! [slideshow]
Kids’ Club celebrates Thanksiving
Kids’ Club has done several activities to commemorate Thanksgiving this November. We prepared marshmallow Pilgrims’ hats and Native American tepees that children could take home and eat. Tepees were dwellings used by the Native Americans of the Great Plains, so the Pilgrims did not actually see them. The Native Americans where the Pilgrims arrived, the Wompanoag,