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  • Exploring Family Relationships with a sonnet by Terrance Hayes

    April 15, 2020October 27, 2025

    Today’s post is by guest author Charles Ellenbogen, who is in his 27th year of teaching. He teaches high school in Cleveland, Ohio, and has recently published a teaching memoir, This Isn’t the Movies: 25 Years in the Classroom. This lesson plan features one of Terrance Hayes’s American sonnets from American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, as well…

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  • Line breaks, featuring poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Terrance Hayes

    October 29, 2018October 13, 2025

    This lesson of mine was originally posted on Wakelet, curated by Kristin Runyon for National Poetry Month in April 2017. Click here for more poem pairings by other teachers across the country. This is my favorite poem pairing of all time for several reasons. First, I LOVE both of these poets’ work. Second, Hayes INVENTED a new form of poetry and…

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