Proving the efficacy of Hawaii's Poets-in-the-Schools program, this collection of descriptive statements by some of Hawaii's leading poets and teachers of poetry, and accompanied by illustrative poems produced by classroom pupils, describes the theories that were generally accepted as a working basis and the related methods each writer used in the teaching of poetry. Many of the essays also include examples of student poems written during that particular poet's school visit and demonstrate the poet's techniques or approaches. The ten poets are (1) Phyllis Thompson, (2) Caroline Garrett, (3) Eric Chock, (4) Muffie Garbisch, (5) Nell Altizer, (6) Gary Kissick, (7) Audrey Sakihara, (8) Dana Naone, (9) Lorraine Flanders, and (10) Mel Takahara. (NKA)