Concrete Poetry

Good morning.

I wanted to finally email you and say thank you for your wonderful work! Not only do you make gift giving easy for that person that has everything ( I both own and have gifted your work several times), but I also use you in my 7th grade English classroom to introduce our poetry unit!

So many of my rural students come into the unit with a poetry "chip" on their shoulder so the very first thing we cover is concrete poems and the very first thing that I do is pull up examples of your artwork - and the magic seems to happen. Kids that only wanted to create a "ball" or "flower" are inspired and challenge themselves to create more interesting pictures.

Today was again the first day of poetry and again the students are swarming to see your work so I decided that it would be a good time to let you know!

Thanks so much for what you do.

Michelle