The Writing Lives Story Project

 jcervo@kent.edu

The last two semesters I have been involved with the Wick Poetry Center and have to say that it has truly changed the direction I'm taking with my future.  I took a basic poetry workshop class last semester with Catherine Blackbird and absolutely loved it.  I was able to attend several functions held by the Wick Poetry Center at the Kiva and Library and found them all to be wonderful experiences.  I was referred to David Hassler's teaching poetry in schools class and enrolled in it this current semester.  I never thought any class here at Kent could be as fulfilling as his class.  I am a student in his class and a teacher in another.  My partner and I have the wonderful opportunity to take what we learned in class and use it to teach an 11th grade class at Barberton High School and a 3rd grade class at Holden Elementary.  This class has enlightened me and changed my career goal to possibly teaching a language arts class involving poetry.  I have had a truly remarkable experience so far working with my students and watching them grow a poets.  Without this program I would still be fairly clueless as to what I wanted to achieve in my tenure at Kent State University.  I believe that the Wick Poetry Center here at Kent has touched the lives of many students and will continue only continue to swell and reach many many more future poets.

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