Our students were asked to recite a few of their chosen works at a luncheon which will be held at the Lifelong Learning Institute (LLIChesterfield.org) in Midlothian, Virginia on Tuesday,
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A Shooting Star and a Pastoral Poem
Nancy Kunneman, a writer from my Lifelong Learning Institute of Chesterfield’s Poetry Workshop was inspired by an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Lauren Fagone, a dancer from the
Poetry on an Rx Pad
During our last several poetry workshops at LLIChesterfield.org, the participants discussed some writing prompts I offered to help inspire their poetic expressions. I presented ” The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos
Use the Right Butter and Other Slatherings from our Poetry Workshop
I am in the middle of my nine-week Poetry Workshop at Lifelong Learning Institute (LLIChesterfield.org), we are creating increasingly more wonderful individual and class artistic works. For example, using the
Learning About Life and French with Dr. Lydia Aiken-Wilson
Dr. Lydia Aiken-Wilson states, at the beginning of her Intermediate French class, that she wants her students to translate, from English to French, the African proverb “An old person dying
White as Milk: Using Synesthesia to Create New Beginnings
Our poetry workshop at LLI (LLIChesterfield.org) focused on the literary term, Synesthesia, which may also be a technique that combines images from each of the human senses, i.e. sight, sound, taste,
Why is the Laughing Rainbow Blue? Conducting a New Poetry Workshop
Our Director, Rachel Ramirez, thought that my Poetry Appreciation and Writing Workshop was the first one held on that subject at Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia (www.LLIChesterfield.org). Nine students
Poetry in Motion: My Baby Thinks He’s a Train
In the fall 2015 term at the Lifelong Learning Institute of Chesterfield (LLI-Chesterfield.org,), I taught a class on The Poetry of 1940’s Songs. In it, we discussed how some songs
