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Do a Video Reading

Choose one of the poems from the collection and create a video version in which you read the poem and present images--still photographs, drawings, animations, video clips, or any combination of these--to complement the ideas in the poem.

Create Your Own Poetic Correspondence

Working with a partner, write a series of at least four free verse poems of at least eight lines each. Just as with the Diaz/Limón collaboration, your poems should respond to one another and pick up images, details, and other elements from one another.

Create an Art Anthology

Choose a poem from Postcolonial Love Poem and create a piece of art that responds to it, using the medium of your choice. Afterward, write a paragraph that explains the relationship between your art and the poem.

Turn a Poem Into a Narrative

Choose one of the poems from Postcolonial Love...

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