Letter poetry is a form of writing which provides audiences points of focus: objects, nonhuman organic things, people who have died, and figures from history. Examples of student writing are provided. (HOD)

Lists the three top placings in the three divisions (article, poetry, and short story) of the 47th Literary Contest. Includes the best article, the best story, and the best poem. (JM)

Presents a poem based on a captivity account by French born Pierre Radisson, who was captured in 1652 by the Mohawk Indians near his home in New France and inducted into the tribe. Includes a list of study questions. (Author/AEM)

Outlines the teaching of Edward Thomas' poetry over a six-week period. (SRT)

A new deaf poetics has emerged, characterized by the focus on the centrality of the image in both American Sign Language (ASL) poems and in the international poetry community. A series of performances by ASL poets and other activities linking poets have provided new data to support the universal, i.e., poetic, phase through which language…

Recounts the experience of analyzing Maya Angelou's poem "Harlem Hopscotch" and how it helped students see the extended metaphor and the parallels to life experiences. (MS)

Examines ways in which academics are portrayed in contemporary poetry and literature, discussing three common stereotypes: the absent-minded professor; the common, empty pedant; and the academic automaton. (AYC)

Offers one teacher's approach to teaching Robert Hayden's poem "The Whipping," along with her students' responses to the poem. (ARH)

Presents a reflective poem depicting the thoughts of a special education child. (BJD)

Outlines common abuses that occur when students first use dramatic analysis in oral interpretation. Offers guidelines to help make students' efforts more productive; uses William Carlos Williams's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" as an example. (PD)

Analysis of eight leading basal reading programs indicated that the majority of selections were narrative materials, that poems accounted for 25 percent of the total selections, and that exposition accounted for 15 percent. Teacher's Manuals provided instruction on how to read various types of writing. Narrative materials were most often used for…

The person and poetry of Walt Whitman are discussed. Excerpts from his poems are included. (RM)

Creativity requires the freshness and openness of a childlike vision. By teaching and encouraging children to write creatively, to write poetry, teachers are helping them to respond and react to the world about them and to understand it verbally. (RM)

Research results show that (1) poems possess certain, mainly linguistic, properties, i.e., there is a poetic language, and (2) that readers respond to poems by means of their knowledge of poetic language, i.e., they possess a poetic competence. (RM)

Discusses H.D.'s influence on Adrienne Rich in the context of Rich's vision of female literary tradition as a "family" model of influence in which mothers and daughters, represented by past and present authors, seek to transcend the divisive attitudes of patriarchy (in contrast to Bloom's theory of literary, oedipal rivalry). (ML)