Michael and Sara and Police and Poetry

Sara with her new poetry partner

Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook's project, to bring kids and police together to write poetry, was featured in the News Herald. The theme of the workshop was “If These Streets Could Talk.”

Michael talks about the inception of the project on his blog:

• Michael Salinger: Poetry, police, pedagogy and perspective

and follows on with a post about how it worked

• Michael Salinger: Police, Poetry, Pupils and Pedagogy

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• Poetry bring kids and police officers together in Eastlake

What's poetry, anyway? Sara answers

Sara Holbrook writes,

Poetry can take a lot of different forms, but it is definitely not a cupcake.

Poetry is the water and flour.