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Did they really call our name?
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By Kelly de la Rocha, founder of poem RENOVATION Late afternoon on the final day of the Yale Innovation Summit, John Melillo and I were sipping drinks in the courtyard. We were thrilled to have been chosen to present about poem RENOVATION at the annual summit, which convenes the innovation and entrepreneurship community for two […]
Celebrate Creativity
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Sounds like home
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My friend, Alison, suggested the tagline “Sounds like home” for poem RENOVATION. It didn’t resonate, until I saw poem RENOVATION in action at United Church Homes’ continuing care communities.
meet our team
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Many more generous and talented people are lending a hand to our effort as well. We are so thankful to everyone who has offered help and encouragement!
poem RENOVATION: how it works
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poemRENOVATION.com visitors are presented daily with a scrambled passage from literature. They select words that resonate with them, then move them around on a digital canvas to create something new–a poem, a phrase, even word art. There are no rules. The sole objective is to create! In the process, users learn literary constructs like figurative […]
Pitch night success!
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poem RENOVATION founder Kelly de la Rocha was one of six chosen from a pool of more than 40 applicants to participate in the HAYVN HATCH New Haven pitch night for women-owned tech and tech-enabled businesses. She was named one of the winners! Watch the video
Coming soon: Poem Pals!
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QUESTION: If 304 students from 12 sixth grade classes take the same 48 words, rearrange them, then share their creationswith their cross-country counterparts, what do you get? ANSWER: Poem Pals! In March, we’ll kick off a cross-country collaboration between sixth graders in New York State’s Capital Region and California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Students will use poem RENOVATION to […]
What inspired all of this?
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Anger For an Unbalanced Oven Rack is the first poem I ever wrote. I was 17 and my parents were divorcing. Laying my confusion and sorrow down on paper helped me heal. During the pandemic, I began searching for new meaning in my Oven Rack poem. Eager to see if I could create an updated […]
poem RENOVATION in the news
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WMHT TV New York Now interview: Poem Renovation: A Game-Changing Approach to Teaching Poetry WAMC Northeast Public Radio interview (Interview begins at the 7:30 mark in the recording): #1690: Poetry and a Spelling Bee | The Best of Our Knowledge | WAMC Times Union article, Albany, NY: Writer’s Poem Renovation site aims to inspire love […]