Background
2024 Poetry Contest
The Global Teach Ag Network (GTAN) recognizes the power of the arts as a teaching tool. In 2021, we partnered with Poetry X Hunger, a pioneer in using poetry as a new, non- traditional agricultural and food security teaching tool. In this effort, we developed a digital module that can be used by educators to incorporate poetry into your lessons and curriculum.
We believe that poetry can engage young people and adults through eye-opening, heart- moving teaching moments.
In 2024, we want to recognize the role that teachers play when introducing new strategies to act against hunger and other global issues. For this reason, we are introducing the GTAN Poetry Teaching Contest, a challenge in which educators are invited to use the PoetryXHunger module with their students before May 31, 2024.
Do you have Spanish speaking students? For the first time, GTAN en Español is bringing the challenge also in Spanish!
More information can be found below and in this official contest call:
Contest! The Poetry Competition Guidelines:
Eligibility: We invite submissions for teachers, professors, and educators’ that are a part of the GTAN Community. Entry guidelines: The hunger poetry module must be implemented by May 31, 2024. Access the module here:
Submission
Each participant must complete a Poetry Module Implementation Form about the experience of teaching the poetry module. The form can be completed in English or Spanish. Go to this link to access to the form, and rubric:
- Poetry Module Implementation Form will be submitted via a Google Form with a spot for submission as a Word document attachment.
- Submissions will also include name, contact information, location, and a 2-3 sentence biographical statement.
- Due date: All entries must be submitted by midnight U.S. Eastern Time, June 7.
- By submitting, entrants agree to allow GTAN to use their poems during GTAN sessions and afterward in session recordings, and to post their poems on the Poetry X Hunger website All rights to entered poems remain with the poet.
Submissions should be uploaded at the link below
Questions? Contact Karen Lopez Olmedo at kdl5387@psu.edu
*Big thank-you to Hiram Larew and Diane Wilbon Parks for the creative spark that helped make this possible!
