2nd day of poetry workshop. Apology poems on the model of "Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams." They did extraordinarily well. The clear-cut format helps the kids write, even when they end up abandoning the pattern. Tomorrow I might do "I used to be / but now I am." I am reaching almost all of the class which is about 50/50 White and African-American, with a few Asians (including my daughter) and one student from Ethiopia. It is not an "inner-city" school, but it is not really "suburban" either.