Using metaphor to understand our relationship to language.
Teaching persona poems inspired by Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler.
A conversation on haiku with Anne Burgevin.
From the Teachers & Writers Collaborative archive.
Using video games to teach poetic imagery.
Adventures with Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
How the poetry of Robert Hayden and the rap music of Drake can encourage close reading.
A conversation with Terrance Hayes.
The nebulous origins of one student’s pandemic poetry.
Writing collaboratively with kids.
Demystifying and remystifying poetry in the classroom.
Erasure as empowerment in the middle school classroom.
Reflections on writing and teaching poetry.
In praise of listening.
Teaching Robert Burleigh’s Hoops.
In praise of listening.
On communing with your surroundings as a writing approach.
Creative growth with Kostas Anagnopoulos.
Raising spirits and conjuring magic in the poetry classroom.
A window into The Poetry Studio and the new collection, Another World: Poetry and Art by Young People.
Two high school poetry workshops.
Finding creativity and connecting writing to the natural world.