Tag: poetry
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How to Pick a Lock
Rediscovering wonder in the blank page.
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Word into Idea
An aleatory exercise for young poets.
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Like Cutting a Watermelon with a Sharp Knife
On haiku and cultivating a receptivity for imagery.
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What Do I Know?
Engaging with the borrowed wisdom of the cento.
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Words with Wings and Magic Things
A conversation with Matthew Burgess.
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Birthing Corpses
Nurturing high school writers through a two-year poetry journey.
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Where We’re From
Using poetry to build community.
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Tools for Rethinking the World
Using surrealist and science fiction techniques to liberate the imagination.
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The World Around Us: Balancing Opposing Forces
A conversation with Ruben Quesada.
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Back to School with Sijo
Six teachers expand poetry’s horizons with this Korean form.
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On the Recycling Bin & Rooms Full of Other People
A conversation with poet Asiya Wadud.
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Mockingbird
Using one-sentence poem trickery to inspire student writing.
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The Essential, Vulnerable, Art-Making Self
A conversation with poet Annie Woodford.
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Playing with Fire
Poetry to motivate and inspire students in difficult times.
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Flexing Our Rhyming Muscles
Introducing the ghazal.
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The Slowest Writing in the World
We use a needle and thread to learn to write.
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Recovery Through Writing
Reducing the stigma of mental illness.
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How Long Peace Takes
Writing about world issues using the work of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Is This Poetry?
Teaching Ron Padgett's poem "Nothing in That Drawer."
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Gathering the Split Halves of Yourself
Poetic form found in recipes & the everyday.
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My English Is a Skeleton Key
Using metaphor to understand our relationship to language.
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Embodying the Hurricane
Teaching persona poems inspired by Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler.
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A Window into an Experience of a Moment in a Season
A conversation on haiku with Anne Burgevin.
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Early Teaching Diaries of Louise Glück
From the Teachers & Writers Collaborative archive.