Using eleven of W.B. Yeats's poems, John Gordon explores ways of thinking about and teaching poetry in secondary schools and at undergraduate level. He draws together commentary, research, and his own professional experience, to enable his readers to develop flexible pedagogical judgement that can respond to the requirements of a range of students…

Describes a teacher's experience in presenting her students with James Dickey's poem "The Leap." Focuses on the primary visual images of the poem, the space where memory lives, the space where contemplation thrives, and the space where emotions dwell. (PRA)

Describes a technique for stimulating student interest in poetry by having each student use multisensory approaches to show classmates the value of a favorite poet. (DD)

This critical overview of successful renditions offers many resources for both the film enthusiast and the poetry lover. (KS)

Compares poetry to a dead body that teachers, like mad scientists, are trying to revive. Suggests that teachers stop trying to teach students to find the meaning in a poem but to simply accept the experience in a nonjudgmental, open way. Offers three activities designed to help students to explore poetry in their own way. (PRA)

Describes the 2000 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America. Notes the festival was designed to create opportunities for personal communication between poets and teachers, who share so many similar concerns for the future of language arts education. (RS)

This paper describes Rod McKuen's theories of poetic composition, arguing that McKuen appeals to the anti-intellectual, blindly sentimental capacities of the American public. A comparison of McKuen's work with the work of such poets as James Dickey, Robert Lowell, and Theodore Roethke is outlined in order to demonstrate to students the superficial…

The author, who is a poet, finds that it's "no good trying to be literary" with inner-city children. (Editor/RK)

Offers a selection of resources on modernism and modern poetry for secondary teachers of modern poetry to use for independent study. Comments on a rhetorical approach to poetry, backgrounds to modern poetry, and four modern poets. Describes the benefits of these resources to a poetry teacher. (PRA)

Presents the poetry of a talented 13-year-old student. Describes how the teacher's writing workshop helped the young writer to flourish. (PRA)

Asserts that poetry is a basic way for individuals to learn enough about their culture to become a welcome member of it. Offers the views on poetry of several poets. Discusses the benefits of using poetry, rather than logical mathematical thought, to teach students how they view reality. (PRA)

Asks seven successful poets to share their knowledge and experience of writing poetry by answering seven questions that provide classroom teachers with approaches for facilitating students' poetry writing. Addresses topic selection, writing processes, language usage, choosing a form, whether forms should be taught, revision, and whether hard work…

A fictional (perhaps) description of the authors' experience as a visiting poet to a tough class. (CRH)

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)

This booklet contains the proceedings of a seminar in which poets demonstrated through readings and analysis of their works how poetry, combining appeals to both reason and emotion, can develop and refine individual awareness of the world and nature around us. The primary participants in the program were Bruce Cutler, Dolores Kendrick, and May…