Partners in Rhyme

Gold medals🥇for the Blooming girls at Moses Youth Center ! Grateful for the chance to connect and hear your take on poetry and life. Wishing you all the best! ❤️🌸⭐️

Cambridge sidewalk poet Molly Watt kicked off our first session with the kind and thoughtful young men from the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge) who left us believing that our future is in capable hands. 💫🌟🤩

Day 2 at where we read “Paint Me Like I Am” by V. Chin and “A Girl Named Jack” by J. Woodson. We painted and wrote, and several brave souls read their impressive work to the large group. And yes, we had cookies and there was just the right amount of goofing around! 🙃

Day 1 of Partners in Rhyme at Willis Dmooreyouthcenter in Cambridge. We wrote poems in newly decorated journals, ate cookies together, and goofed around 🙃. More summer fun to come! 🌞🍪🖋📕

April is National Poetry Month!
"And may you in your innocence sail through this to that" - Lucille Clifton

Bravo to the Acera - The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity and Leadership poets who aced their performances/readings at Museum Walk yesterday! Missing from photo: Mars, Lavan, and Ben :(

Bravo to our impressive Poetry Open Mic readers! 🎤✨ 🫶

Many thanks to Partners in Rhyme supporters: Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge), Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge Council on Aging, The Cambridge Homes

Join us if you can and bring a poem to read!
Aug 15, 4-6PM Little Crepe Cafe, 102 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge) Cambridge Arts Council

Are you interested in connecting with local teens? Would you like to have more poetry in your life?

Partners in Rhyme, an intergenerational poetry program, is looking for adults over 60 from Cambridge to join its summer program. Get to know local teens from the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program as you explore poetry in a fun and approachable way.
Where: Frisoli Youth Center, 61 Willow St, Cambridge, MA
When: Jul: Thu 13, Tue 18, Thu 20; Aug: Tue 8, Thu 10, Tue 15
Time: 2-3 PM
Contact Patti Russo [email protected] or 978-314-8659

Many thanks to Cambridge Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council for funding this program.

Today was Museum Walk at Acera - The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity and Leadership and these young poets nailed their performances! Feel proud! Happy Summer!🌞💛

What a fantastic group of young people! Fun poetry class exploring happiness today at Acera - The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity and Leadership! 😍🌺

2 poets named Smith + 1 new book of poems = 1 amazing evening! (Math never was my thing.)

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Partners in Rhyme is grateful to receive a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council! We're excited to return to the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge) this July and August! 🌞

New interactive exhibits at the recently-renovated Emily Dickinson Museum nicely bring her work to life! I was relieved that she was portrayed as the joyful, young woman she was and not only as a homebody. The Apple TV series "Dickinson" has increased visitor numbers. See photo captions for more info... :)

Congratulations to Ada Limon!

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1110804783/ada-limon-named-new-u-s-poet-laureate

Ada Limón named new U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón was named as the nation's 24th poet laureate by the Library of Congress. She will take over from Joy Harjo, who has held the position since 2019.

Wondrous indeed.

https://pirpoetry.com/2021/11/12/wondrous/

“Wondrous” Today’s poem and I keep bumping into each other. I found it in my inbox, anthologies, magazines, and even on a poetry walk in New Hampshire, so I decided it was time to share it here. As a fa…

can't wait to see these two on Dec 2!

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Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live | Virtual Performance If you can't join Sarah and Phil live, your ticket will give you access to a recording of the performance for up to a week!

Kicking off November with some Lasso and Levertov...
https://pirpoetry.com/2021/11/01/variation-on-a-theme-by-rilke/

Variation on a Theme by Rilke “I have a real tricky time hearing folks who don’t believe in themselves.” Ted Lasso, Season 1: episode 3 If you haven’t watched Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ series that swept t…

We'll be at the Hatch Shell on Friday to hear this Handel and Haydn Society performance and Tracy K. Smith’s adaptation of Schiller's “Ode to Joy." Boston-area friends, join us if you can!

Aug. 27, 7 p.m. Rain date Aug. 28, 7 p.m. At DCR Hatch Shell, Charles River Esplanade. Free. www.handelandhaydn.org

Poet Tracy K. Smith breathes new life into Beethoven’s Ninth - The Boston Globe The former US poet laureate’s new English lyrics for “Ode to Joy” will premiere in a Handel and Haydn Society performance at the Hatch Shell Aug. 27.

Mary Oliver assigned the homework this week. Teens and older adults are taking photos of something that astonishes them as they practice being present. Here's a taste of what's been grabbing their attention... 😍

Cambridge Arts Council Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge), Mass Cultural Council

Love this intergenerational group! ❤ The comments from the teens today were wise beyond their years. Those of us over 50 were wowed and inspired!

Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge), Cambridge Arts Council, Mass Cultural Council

Homework this week in the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge) is to scatter small kindnesses and report back what you notice. Thank you Cambridge Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council for funding this intergenerational poetry program!

Partners In Rhyme, a Cambridge Arts Council grantee, invites you to join their free program of poetry reading and reflective and creative writing from July 6 to Aug. 10. Contact: [email protected]

Thank you, Concord-Carlisle Community Chest, for the generous grant that will bring Partners in Rhyme to CCHS several times next year! Thanks also to Kate Eden Renyi Photography for this lovely photo!

Poetry as a Voice for Activism
Hosted by Longfellow House Summer Poetry Series
Free, virtual, and open to all!

2021 Virtual Summer Poetry Festival - Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) The New England Poetry Club, Friends of Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters, and Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site are pleased to announce the 2021 Virtual Summer Poetry Festival: Poetry as a Voice for Activism. This year’s festival, which begins Sunday, June...

Wrapped up my first virtual series with the Carlisle Council on Aging today. I learn so much from this group of thoughtful and creative thinkers. Some of us have been together for more than a dozen years! Happy Summer! ❤🌷🌻🌞

“Poetry can serve as a vaccine for the soul.” - Dr. Norman Rosenthal - ❤❤
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/well/mind/national-poetry-month-coronavirus.html

When the Doctor Prescribes Poetry “This crisis affects more or less everyone, and poetry can help us process difficult feelings like loss, sadness, anger, lack of hope.”

Happy Poetry Month! Excited to start the celebration with "My Honest Poem" by the brilliant Rudy Francisco!! ❤
pirpoetry.com/2021/04/01/my-honest-poem/

“My Honest Poem” Poetry is in a good place. Its popularity has increased since Amanda Gorman’s captivating Inauguration reading. Attendance is up at virtual readings, and self-proclaimed poetry haters are sud…

🤔Was Emily a basketball fan?
"A little Madness in the Spring
is wholesome even for the King." --Emily Dickinson

I watch this video again and again and still get goose bumps! ❤❤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIYMCC0M1w

"For Estefani" poem by Aracelis Girmay A poet receives a card with a cryptic message from a third grader. What she uncovers is a perfect little moment of beauty. --An animated interpretation of Ar...