Category: From the Archive
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How Long Peace Takes
Writing about world issues using the work of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Early Teaching Diaries of Louise Glück
From the Teachers & Writers Collaborative archive.
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A Hunger for Stories
An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes
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The Backward Prompt
Using Great First Lines from Literature to Invent Your Own Way Forward
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Teaching Whitman in High School
Connecting to the spiritual through "Song of Myself" and writing poetry.
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Four Women
At the Beginning of Teachers & Writers Collaborative
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Teaching James Baldwin
Tapping into Baldwin's honesty and passion to teach personal essay.
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Teaching Writing in Middle School
Using Meredith Sue Willis's Blazing Pencils and Personal Fiction Writing
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Where Does It Take You?
Using the Poetry of Paz, Pacheco, Gutierrez, Blanco, and Deltoro as Models
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Writing a Dream Poem
Using dreams to create poetry and visual art.
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Educating the Imagination
Colson Whitehead Interviewed by Matthew Sharpe
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Letters to a Young Writer
On artistic citizenship
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Thinking Outside the Box
Promoting Family Literacy in Prison
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The Taste of Happiness
Teaching Students to Describe Emotions in Poetry
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Hidden Beauty
Using a Poem by Jayne Cortez
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Using Douglass Narrative to Inspire Student Writing
Activities for literary and personal empowerment
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Teaching Poetry As a Part of Real Life
True stories of teaching creative writing.
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Image to Word
An abecedarian list of poetry games and experiments.
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Frederick Douglass & The Value of My Life
Exploring the intersection between literature and history.
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The Art of the Manifesto
The beginning of the 20th century witnessed what Mary Ann Caws has called "The Manifesto Moment."
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Now Let’s Stare at the Purple
Where do your poems come from?
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Weaving Voices
Writing as a working-class daughter, professor, and poet.
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The Tree Project
2004 Winner of the Bechtel Prize
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Declare yourself: Talking about the Youth Vote
A conversation with Marty McConnell.