Just in time for the last day of poetry month, the Taught by Literature project, directed by Dr. Jean Lutes, has added poetry to its website!
The project is adding poetry by historical Black women writers to its freely available resources. The team is especially excited to launch its coloring page project, which will make coloring pages of Black women intellectuals available as downloadable PDFs. The team's first coloring page is an original illustration of Alice Dunbar-Nelson's poem "I Sit and Sew," first published in 1918.
TBL's poetry curricular materials, designed for middle and high school teachers, went online yesterday, with the introduction of "I Sit and Sew." The educator's guide and slides were created by TBL graduate assistant Julia Reagan, in consultation with the scholars and other students on the TBL team.
Julia has worked with TBL graduate assistant Katy Kessler throughout the 2024-25 academic year to produce curricular materials to accompany TBL's Lifting Their Voices video series, which features contemporary Black women educators reading short texts by historical Black women writers. Katy has also been writing social media posts for TBL to spread the word about the project's new resources.
You can learn more by visiting TBL's poetry webpage and/or video series.
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| Drawing by Taylor McManus, inspired by Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "I Sit and Sew" |
