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Our Statewide Student Day of Poetry has been broke up into five regional events for 2015. You are now perusing the BOSTON event! 

On Tuesday, December 15, Mass Poetry’s Student Day of Poetry is taking over UMass Boston! SDOP features a morning poetry sampler, writing-generative workshops, performances, readings, and a student open mic. We’ve got something for everyone, from the student who isn’t even sure they like poetry to the senior leading the after-school poetry club. 
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Tuesday, December 15 • 10:35am - 11:50am
Breaking Up With America

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In this work shop, we will address idealized notions of the American Dream by looking at the way we talk about romance. We will look at break-up poems & poems about colonization & poems about "making it." How is America romanticized? How can some immigrant stories be compared to heartbreak? Students will write their own break-up poems to America.
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Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a spoken-word poet & educator living in Boston. She has previously been published in Electric Cereal, Michrochondria, & the Guardian. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion and a Brenda Moosey Video Slam Winner.Sample Poem:If you ask me if I am fluent in Spanish... Read More →

Tuesday December 15, 2015 10:35am - 11:50am EST
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  Writing-generative workshop

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