Student Voices: Storytelling and Poetry Are Empathy Bridges

Student Voices: Storytelling and Poetry Are Empathy Bridges

An excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place serves as a model for students to investigate the difference between outsider and insider perspectives of a place and how the escapism of tourism creates distance from the realities of a visited place.

High school student Sinéad O’Reilly decided to address the isolation brought by COVID to her community in Wexford, Ireland, through public story exchanges and poetry workshops.