News at Eleven: The poetry assembly on Tuesday morning

at the Horace Mann School, in the Bronx, was meant to be provocative. The visiting poets who led it asked students to write words on index cards--remembrances, colors and references to pop-culture icons--that would then converge as poems.

The poets had set the tone for the exercise by reading a poem they had written together, which uses startling, offensive language and has in its first three lines the harshest slurs against blacks and gays.

from The New York Times: Students Repeat a Poem's Slurs, Surprising the Poets and an Elite Bronx School

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