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Profile: Jack Collom.
Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Gives a brief background on poet, Jack Collom, and presents a number of Collom's poems. (MM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Personal Narratives, Poetry, Poets
Profile: Alan Ziegler Poet and Teacher.
Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Provides background on poet, fiction writer, and teacher Alan Ziegler. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, Poetry, Poets
The First Poem I Ever Wrote.
Casper, Susan Faust – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1983
Recounts how a graduate student in education struggled to write her first poem before going out to teach poetry to students. (JL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Higher Education, Poetry, Poets
Poets-in-the-Schools in Bush Alaska.
Randlev, Karen R. – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1981
Relates the experiences of a poet visiting and teaching in three Alaskan villages. (RL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Poets
A Kind of Wary Attention: Teaching Poetry in Small-Town Ohio.
Hermsen, Terry – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1989
Describes one day of a poet-in-residency at a high school in rural Ohio. (MM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Poetry, Poets, Teacher Student Relationship
Reflections on the Art of Poetry.
Supervielle, Jules – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1987
A new translation of the French poet's most famous essay in which he discusses his creative process and aesthetic views. (JG)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Creativity, Literary Devices, Literary Styles
Writer's Block: PITS in Prison.
Hillman, Grady – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1983
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)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Correctional Education, Creative Writing
A Typical Ninth Grade Class.
Rutherford, Michael – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
A fictional (perhaps) description of the authors' experience as a visiting poet to a tough class. (CRH)
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, Fiction, Itinerant Teachers
About a Wolf, Maybe Two Wolves.
Swander, Mary – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Describes two poetry models that encourage the students to begin writing with the literal facts--the concrete--and allow the more abstract meaning to emerge from there. (CRH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Imagery, Poetry
Sing in Me, Muse: Ancient Greek in the Elementary School School Classroom.
Davis, Dale – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1986
Discusses a program designed for elementary school students to develop an awareness of ancient Greece through the voices of its poets. (DF)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Epics, Greek
Three Poetry Ideas.
Brown, Crystal – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1983
Presents methods of coordinating poetry writing with mask making, oriental exercises, and painting to give students a sharper insight into the poetic impulse. (MM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Writing, Cultural Context, Elementary Education
Poetic Forms: A New Look.
Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1987
Adapted from the forthcoming book, "The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms," defines forms, summarizes their histories, quotes examples, and offers teachers, students, and beginning writers suggestions on how to read and compose in each form. Discusses free verse, ghazal, epic, prose poem, line, spoonerism, imitation, and villanelle. (JG)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Arts
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams Revisited.
Morley, Jeff – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1983
Reevaluates the impact that Kenneth Koch's 1970 collection of children's poetry, "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams," has had on its contributors. (MM)
Descriptors: Adults, Books, Creative Writing, Education Work Relationship
Poetry across Frontiers.
Simon, John Oliver – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1989
Describes a unique exchange program between Mexico and California in which poets go to the foreign country to teach poetry writing, with local poets, to elementary school children. Provides samples of exercises in poetry writing and excerpts of children's poetry, translated from Spanish into English. (KEH)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Writing Renga.
Paz, Octavio – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Discusses the renga as the negation of the western belief in the soul and the reality of the I. (MM)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cooperation, Creative Writing, Cultural Differences