The first day of poetry class, the young man had only one word to say to his new instructor Laurie Gilkenson: “Pizza.”What’s your name? Another young man stood in front of the lectern and flapped his arms in imitation of the butterfly he spoke about. “Next year, I want to take poetry,” the young man told Stein-Verbit. If I can do it, you can do it.’ ”The poetry class, she said, was fun and helped her better understand some of her classmates who aren’t very verbal. But they then settled on poetry and “never looked back.”Later, as Stein-Verbit stood in front of the stage, congratulating students, Gilkenson walked over with a young man who wore a superhero T-shirt.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2016 23:03 UTC