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Welfare Poets Writing Workshop in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The Welfare Poets conduct numerous poetry and community-empowerment workshops throughout the US and the Caribbean. Some have served as Poets-in-Residence at public schools where they engaged students at all developmental levels and ages, helping them refine their own unique voices.
The Poets also conduct staff development workshops for teachers to broaden understanding and appreciation for poetry as it relates to literacy and “urban” art-forms such as hip-hop.
Creative Writing : we facilitate writing workshops for students of all ages covering various themes
Community Organizing : Looking at the wealth of organizing talent available within our community to address our needs.
Poetry of Resistence: An examination of the art of resistence through some of our most heroic artists
Hip Hop as Poetry: Looking at the art form of Hip Hop in the context of real writing, real poetry. Understanding the many writing techniques used by Hip Hop artists
Staff Development: Exploring ways to implement poetry in the classroom as a way to inspire student writing
Poetry of Resistence: An examination of the art of resistence through some of our most heroic artists
- Printed Workshop Anthology
- Specially-Produced Workshop Audio CDs
- Student-produced PoetryShow
Speaking Engagements and lectures are less interactive than workshops, but are more manageable for larger roups. We can speak on various political and cultural topics including the following topics:
- New African Prisoners
- Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
- Environmental Racism
- Vieques
- Hip Hop Activism
- Literacy and Liberation
DOCUMENTS
- Lyrics from Lower Manhattan [adobe pdf]
AUDIO [realaudio]
- Hip-hop is... [Staff Development]
- What's Going On [High School]
- Why... [Elementary School]
- Young Black Poet [High School]
Sounds
from Uptown
PS 35, Bronx NYC
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
from "Lyrics are Loud," Poems
& Drawings from PS 53K, Brooklyn
6th, 7th, and 8th. graders
Love
I owe you none
You ain't the only one
What I an't trying to do
Is lie to you
Go find a clue
I got no time for you
Won't beep you
Or see you
Don't need you
We aint people
I want to teach you
Then I'll leave you
----Lydia
From Lyrics from Lower Manhattan
Poems from Bergtraum High School
10th and 12th graders
Hip Hop is a tour guide thru the streets
... empty pockets need to eat
a pitbull naturally sweet
yet raised to defeat
with angry teeth
in a world that can't be beat
Hip Hop is perspiration
... the sweat of a sinner
raining down like percipitation
watering the seeds that's within us
Hip Hop is narcotic
... addictive once you've got it
a drug that's legalized
with a natural high that needs to be recognized
----Melissa
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