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Who Are You? [1]

Poetry [2]
4.24.12

Choose a well-known person from history or from the news. Write a persona poem [3] from this person's voice and perspective. For an example, read the poet Ai's "The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981," from her collection Sin (Norton, 1986), written from the perspective of convicted murderer Wayne Williams, or watch a video of Ai reading the poem [4].


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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/who_are_you [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/Persona [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6v6n_FZ54