Author Arriel Vinson Works With Upper School Students

We were thrilled to welcome the Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Under the Neon Lights, Arriel Vinson, to the Tregaron Campus on March 11!

She started off with our Grade 9 students during their advisory, talking about her book and reading an except from it before taking questions.

Afterwards, Arriel spent time with our Grade 10 English classes, who recently finished their poetry unit. She led a workshop focused on erasure poetry as resistance, where a poet blacks out or in some way erases words from a preexisting source to create a new poem. 

Arriel asked students to begin by free writing things they would like to erase from their worlds right now. After discussing a few examples, she gave some examples of erasure poetry, before handing out writing samples and asking students to create their own. The workshop ended with several students sharing their new poems.

Thank you so much to Arriel for spending time with our Upper School community!