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Click for more poetry Wakelet lessons designed by Joel. This lesson was designed originally for NCTE Verse 2020, a project for National Poetry Month. Here’s a lesson Joel made on José Olivarez’s “Ode to Cheese Fries” from NCTE Verse 2019.

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