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Peer reviewedSmiley, Jerome – Clearing House, 1998
Relates the experience of the author as a young man struggling to write a chapter of his dissertation called "Why Teach Poetry?". Notes that poet Louis Ginsberg (father of poet Allen Ginsberg) provided him with a two-paragraph answer, as meaningful and pertinent now as it was 50 years ago. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Poetry, Poets
