International ABL

ABL alumni Patricia Echessa-Kariuki and David Wandera, two Kenyan teachers who have earned their MA degrees in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, have run workshops for Nairobi teachers and students for over 5 years. The following photo-essay is about one of their latest workshop.

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Of Bombs, Blackness and Ideal Balconies: A Cross-Cultural Poetry Exchange

by Will Marinell and Lou Bernieri

When we first conceived of launching an electronic poetry exchange between our classes in Nairobi, Kenya, and Andover, Massachusetts, we weren't sure what to realistically expect. Will was to teach in Kenya and Bangladesh through a partnership between Phillips Academy and the Aga Khan Education Service. His main objective was to heighten cultural awareness by linking classrooms in the Aga Khan network (a group of educational, business and health care institutions dedicated to improving living standards in the developing world) with those at Andover via electronic exchanges about culture and country. Lou would be teaching a senior elective writing course at Phillips Academy, Andover. Neither one of us had attempted an exchange before. Though we were enthusiastic about the exchange's potential, neither one of us anticipated the impact that it would have on our students or us.

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