Discusses a program designed for elementary school students to develop an awareness of ancient Greece through the voices of its poets. (DF)

Gives a brief background on poet, Jack Collom, and presents a number of Collom's poems. (MM)

Provides background on poet, fiction writer, and teacher Alan Ziegler. (FL)

Recounts how a graduate student in education struggled to write her first poem before going out to teach poetry to students. (JL)

Relates the experiences of a poet visiting and teaching in three Alaskan villages. (RL)

Describes one day of a poet-in-residency at a high school in rural Ohio. (MM)

Describes a poetry writing assignment that teaches students the importance of place and objects in expressing emotions about a childhood memory. (RL)

Describes the author's poet-in-residency at Salmon, Idaho, through a series of letters and journal entries. Describes her planning and orientation; her experiences teaching poetry writing to students at all levels; the organization of a public reading; and her return to distribute an anthology of her students' work. (MM)

A new translation of the French poet's most famous essay in which he discusses his creative process and aesthetic views. (JG)

Relates experiences teaching creative writing to prison inmates. Suggests that writing not only provides a much needed release from prison tension, but it also acts as a defense against inmates' experience of depersonalization. (MM)

Argues that asking students to write in concrete images about specific events and places serves to emphasize the importance of writing from detailed personal experiences. (RL)

Notes playing surrealist games called "Dialogues" provides authentic sources of irrefutable images. Claims that schematically the games are the exact reproduction of the psychic process invariably involved in every kind of creation and thus prove beneficial to break the blocked state writers sometimes face. Provides a list of games.(NH)

Describes a poetry writing exercise that used photographs as a stimulus. Presents some poems produced by this exercise. (JL)

Healthy competition and longer writing projects helped to overcome some of the difficulties associated with the long residencies of visiting writers in elementary schools. (RL)

A journal account of working in the New York poets-in-the-schools program, with some philosophical comments about the teaching of poetry and poetry writing. (RL)