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Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetry -- Study and teaching.
Poetics.
Poetry and children.
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Open the door : how ...
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Open the door : how to excite young people about poetry / edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.
San Francisco : McSweeney's Books ; Chicago : Poetry Foundation, c2013.
Subjects
Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetry -- Study and teaching.
Poetics.
Poetry and children.
ISBN:
9781938073281 :
1938073282
9781938073298 (pbk.) :
1938073290 (pbk.)
Series:
Poets in the world.
Description:
400 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : opening the door / Dominic Luxford -- pt. 1. Essays. The read-aloud handbook / Jim Trelease -- Poetry is an egg with a horse inside / Matthea Harvey -- The process of opening gifts / Jack Collom -- Life as primary text / James Kass -- Teaching children to write poetry / Kenneth Koch -- The care and feeding of a child's imagination / Ron Padgett -- First class / Theodore Roethke -- Children's poetry / Eileen Myles -- The change agents / Phillip Lopate -- Recitation, imitation, stillness / Jesse Nathan -- Fears, truths, and waking life / Jordan Davis -- The door called poetry / William Stafford -- Making the rounds / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Radical strategies / Karen Volkman -- A dream / Dorothea Lasky -- pt. 2. Roundtable discussion. Featuring leaders of poetry organizations for kids from around the United States / Dave Eggers ... [et al.] -- pt. 3. Lesson plans. Dream machine / Michael Dickman -- Attending the living word/world / Elizabeth Bradfield -- Eavesdropping on a figure at work / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Syllabus / Meghan and Liam O'Rourke -- Three imaginary soundtracks / Eric Baus -- A perfect creature in the imperfect world / Valzhyna Mort -- Poems are for everybody / Alex Dimitrov -- Cartogram / Anthony McCann -- The image list / Michael McGriff -- Elsewhere / Katie Ford -- Bad titles / Matthew Zapruder -- Street sonnets / Deborah Landau -- Autobiographia litter-aria / Christina Davis -- Putting two and two together / Dara Wier -- Dreaming in detail / Travis Nichols -- Be a bunch of yous / Laura Solomon -- (Soma)tic poetry exercises / CAConrad -- Eating couplets and haiku / Vicki Vértiz -- The sonnet as a silver marrow spoon / Adam O'Riordan -- Verse journalism / Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff -- Persona poetry / Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff -- A poetry of perception / Rebecca Lindenberg -- Poetry walk / Harriet Levin -- Love is the universe / Emilie Coulson -- Advice for teachers / Stephen Burt -- Afterword : a call to action (or what to do after reading this book).
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This mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans will prove useful for first-time and veteran teachers, parents, MFA graduates and the like, with an interest in poetry's place in the lives of our younger citizens.
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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