The article focuses on the relationship between the primary process and the creative process, especially as it relates to the fields of wit and poetry. Examples of identification based on similarity in schizophrenics are presented. (CL)

Provides a series of suggestions to help students in poetry writing classes move past those periods when ideas for poems seem to have stopped flowing. (TJ)

Original verses for children to read, recite, sing, act out or use to explore feeling and function in a personal way. (Editor)

Illustrates how poetry may evoke reactions of intensional and extensional meanings which are the key to poetry therapy sessions. (HOD)

Includes a discussion with a fifth-grade child about poetry writing and teaching. (SB)

Suggests ways to use poems to enliven reading instruction. (DD)

Discusses an overlooked example in everyday life of serendipitous parapraxes in the recall of poetry presented by Freud in 1907. Notes that its principles are applicable to clinical and educational research and practice, taking into account contemporary transference-countertransference dynamics. (SR)

Discusses the value of poetry as a learning tool for school counselors to use to help students enhance their understanding of others. (GCP)

Presents the process of poetry writing as a method for the study and management of countertransference feelings in the treatment of patients with varying degrees of pathology. Present several poems which serve a number of functions, such as recording, documenting, exploring, and analyzing countertransferential feelings. (SR)

Focuses on the lexicon of American Sign Language poetics. (Author/VWL)

Offers advice to younger writers. Defines poetry as a loving power, visiting writers along its way. Rejects idea that a poet is a creative writer, and states that poets need no imagination. Proposes a writer should disregard mind in favor of mindfulness. (PM)

Discusses three "poem cycles" which represent a collaboration of a poet and a painter. Notes that teachers will find these cycles to be treasures that will heighten young people's appreciation of the natural world and will show them the power that a collaboration of different modes of expression can have in creating meaning. (RS)

Recounts the author's writing of "Owl Moon," an award-winning children's book. (MM)

Recounts a conversation with children's poet and author Eve Merriam. Provides a list of her children's books and poetry on cassette. (MM)