That's his creative voice. As disturbing as it may have been, you should've let him continue. Unless these students were really young kids, but the fact that you said seminar tells me they were old enough. And if it was disturbing enough for you to stop him he must have some talent.

You people aren't thinking about it right, you just assume it was a simple censorship case, if someone were to do poems supporting rape, racism, the holocaust, etc I bet most of you would side with the teacher. Besides the school could have a rule that instructs all teachers to prevent students from reading those poems.

You should not be a teacher.

if it falls under the category of whats required by the class, then you deserved it, its your problem if you cant handle. however if that is not the case, disregard said comment.

******* emus

That's what you get for being an asshole. Where do you get off telling a student he can't participate because you don't approve of his topic? If you wanted to control the topic, you should have assigned one.

charlie charlie, can i write several disturbing poems about you and present them to my class using my other classmates?

You can't censor art

YDI for censoring your students and losing control of your class.

Wow, op. You're setting a limit to people's creativity? That's fantastic. Teach math if you want limits and guidelines, not creative writing. I hope that kid goes on to become a multimillionaire thriller writer.