Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
Introducing the ghazal.
We use a needle and thread to learn to write.
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A conversation with Emily Raboteau.
Writing about world issues using the work of Naomi Shihab Nye.
Teaching Ron Padgett's poem "Nothing in That Drawer."
Poetic form found in recipes and the everyday.
Using metaphor to understand our relationship to language.
Teaching persona poems inspired by Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
Using video games to teach poetic imagery.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
An introduction.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
In praise of listening.
Adventures with Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
How the poetry of Robert Hayden and the rap music of Drake can encourage close reading.
The nebulous origins of one student’s pandemic poetry.