Siyavash Izadi

Poetry has become the proverbial caged bird

The subject is being murdered one worksheet at a time By Tara Nykyforiak Photos by Siyavash Izadi We’ve all experienced the frustration of being forced to read things for class that we didn’t want to. As students, we’ve suffered through lessons of Robert Frost and Shakespeare and afterward, never thought twice of returning to poetry. But why is that? Because of the way it is taught. Outside, and even inside of university English classrooms, it is regarded as “inaccessible” and “pretentious” and is generally left alone. One merely has to say the word “poetry” and images of finger snapping hipsters…

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