"There she is!" is the excited greeting echoing round the room.
Four days a week, from 2 to 3 p.m., it's poetry time at Central School, with Patterson spending a different day in each fourth- and fifth-grade classroom.
This afternoon she reads aloud a few poems the students wrote last week as she hands their poems - now freshly typed - back to them.
Then it's time to learn of a new poet.
Today, it's Charles Simic and his poem "Samurai Song" that she writes on the board.
Patterson reads the opening stanza:
"When I had no roof, I made audacity my roof.
"When I had no supper, my eyes dined...." read more ...
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