[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”300″ identifier=”076368094X” locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/61ZcIKz8w5L.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”258″]For Valentine’s Day today, I was delighted to hear this poem that one of our favorite poets, Kwame Alexander wrote… or more precisely, compiled. Alexander is author of, among many other books:
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Kwame Alexander
Hardback: Candlewick, 2017
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Last month, NPR asked elementary and high school teachers to give the following prompt to their students: “Love is … ” Students then filled in the blank with a line or, in some cases, a whole poem. Teachers from around the country submitted what their students wrote; NPR received more than 2,000 entries. Alexander read through them and created one big love poem.
Listen to the poem, as heard on NPR:
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