Poetry that relates to the beliefs and actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. can be used to help students appreciate the civil rights leader's contributions, examine their own aspirations, and critically analyze poems. A reproducible poetry page is included. (IAH)

Argues that the creative process of formulating poetic imagery during therapy may control, integrate, and communicate emotional distress. Illustrates these ideas using the poetry and reflections of a middle-aged woman in analytically oriented therapy. (SR)

Discusses bilingual psychotherapy and bilingual poetry. Presents several cases in which poetry therapy was used in a multilingual context. Concludes that poetry therapy can have even greater clinical impact when used in the native language or another emotionally important language of the patient. (SR)

Describes the method of "Immersion" to help a client intensify the will to live through a dosed deepening of a feeling of a death which creates a "Force for Pushing Out." Uses the author's own verse as an example of poetry therapy in the context of this method. (SR)

Explores the basic features and background of "the blues" as a musical tool, or archetype, for understanding the universal condition of human suffering, for confronting diseases of disability and separation, and for coping or adapting to such suffering. Offers the blues as a method for looking at the spirit of human tragedy and…

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)

Demonstrates roles poetry can play as people confront the death of loved ones and their own dying. Gives examples of Heinrich Heine transforming his agony into art and, from the poetry of two college students, both in advanced stages of neurological disease, which was read aloud in class, teaching all present something about how to approach their…

Offers the author's (a psychiatric nurse) personal perspective on the self-healing aspects of writing poetry. (SR)

Discusses the development of an anthology of poems on AIDS. (RS)

Provides a perspective on poetry as therapy that involves a quest for self-identity and association to the world. (RS)

Examines the uses of poetry and metaphor in promoting the human rights of silence/thought; discovery/awareness; communication bridges; being creative; and altering perceptions while promoting hope. (SR)

Presents a manifesto proposing the creation of a new kind of poetry--virtual poetry--that exists only in electronic space and computer networks. States that this new poetry is interactive, animated, hyper-linked, and navigational. (PA)

States that the application of cybertextual technologies to experimental poetics is the context for this brief exposition of machine modulated literary work. Raises issues crucial to the work described here--the role of (literary) text in cyberspace; silent reading in new visible language media; and the confusions of computer as medium. (PA)

Discusses a new poetic language invented in 1983 based on innovative use of the holographic medium. Defines what a holopoem is and explains the fundamental concepts of holopoetics. Introduces theoretical principles that address the new readerly experience created by the holotext. Provides a descriptive list of all holopoems created to date. (PA)

Tells the author's own story of surviving the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, and how the practice of memorizing poetry helped her to recover from that trauma. (SR)