Joseph Fasano

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By: Joseph Fasano In 2022, I was invited to speak with a class of second graders in New Jersey to teach them about the craft and magic of poetry. I developed a prompt, The Magic Words framework, that could help them unlock images, thoughts, and feelings without worrying about how to structure a piece of