Teaching the poetic impulse
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Englewood East resident Jim Kelly worked 30 years as a General Motors pipe fitter. For the last 15 years, he's helped elementary and middle school students discover their poetic imaginations.
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Englewood East resident Jim Kelly worked 30 years as a General Motors pipe fitter. For the last 15 years, he's helped elementary and middle school students discover their poetic imaginations.
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Nine fifth graders at Englewood Elementary School won awards and prizes Friday in a poetry contest sponsored by the Suncoast Writers Guild. They were honored before an audience of parents, guests, students and teachers. Pictured are Jim Kelly, Zoe Melo, Kaycee Callahan, Bailey Grossenbacher, Chloe Browder, Destiny Crum, Ann Faureau, Anne Smith, Michael Anzevino, Kaitlyn Tucker, Lorett Alarcon and Margaret Jane Jones. Not pictured is Etienne Beaugrand.
By STEVE REILLY
Staff Writer
ENGLEWOOD — Jim Kelly worked as a pipe fitter for General Motors for 30 years in Buffalo, N.Y., but for the last 15 years he’s been tutoring elementary and middle school students to connect with their poetic impulse.
A volunteer, his goal is for students to paint rainbows with their words and imagination.
