By Carissa Chesanek Photo Credit: Willa Koerner Caits Meissner is the Prison and Justice Writing Program Director at PEN America, educator, poet and artist. She has worked with over 50 organizations and taught within prisons, classrooms, and the online community. During the book tour for her poetry collection Let it Die Hungry, Caits held workshops and…
Teaching Students to Describe Emotions in Poetry FROM THE ARCHIVES: This article was originally published in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Winter 2009-2010. By Harriet Riley AS A FIRST-YEAR Writers in the Schools writer/teacher in Houston last fall, I have to admit I felt like I was entering an obstacle course blindfolded. Even though we had…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: This article originally appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine Volume 29, Issue 3. By Mark Statman Jayne Cortez wrote a wonderful poem that is challenging and useful for inspiring student writing: Under the Edge of February Under the edge of February in hawk of a throathidden by ravines of sweet oilby temples…