Examines over a dozen poems by William Carlos Williams. Notes that these poems can be incorporated easily into an elementary reading/language arts/literature program. Shows how Williams' poetry can help children see others, themselves, and the world in a more imaginative and multiperspective manner. (MM)

Describes two "found poetry" projects that provide a bridge between verse and prose, and which help students focus on a particular poet or literary character. (MM)

Reviews 34 selected volumes of children's poetry published in 1988. Notes that the books discussed include original works, picture book treatments, general and specific anthologies, and collections for mature and young adult readers. (MM)

The article reviews the lives of two highly gifted young writers, the Scottish Marjorie Fleming and the American Betty Ford. It gives samples of their early writing and follows their lives as far as is known. Conclusions are drawn concerning the needs and development of highly verbally gifted children. (DB)

Describes one day of a poet-in-residency at a high school in rural Ohio. (MM)

Reflects on the connections between narrative and lived experience, focusing particularly on a set of three dyads that suggest a relationship of tension: (1) storing life/storying life; (2) truth/fiction; and (3) collection/selection. (TB)

Discusses a poetry therapy group held at a supportive single room occupancy residence (SRO) in East Harlem, New York City. Describes the SRO, the group members, techniques, and work produced by members. Discusses issues of social integration, separation, and childhood as special difficulties of psychiatrically impaired people. Argues that poetry…

Discusses challenges to realistic poetry in school libraries. Addresses what New Realism is being accepted today in the world of poetry. Discusses the author's experiences in dealing with a publisher who wanted a book of poetry about jolly parents and patient grandparents, not a book about families as they really are. (RS)

Examines a classic text, Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," within the context of several of Stevenson's own essays. Suggests that unlike many children's books, it was an experiment and one that Stevenson, for various reasons, including his premature death, was never able to adapt for future use. (RS)

Students can learn to understand prose by carefully listening to the author's voice. The paper gives examples of prose in standard block form and in a poetic form, explaining why students find the poetic form more comprehensible. Students' awareness of rhetoric can be developed through the Myers Briggs inventory. (SM)

Argues that among the branches of historicism practiced by literary critics today, a branch of New Historicism that is broadly humanistic as opposed to narrowly political is the most illuminating. Describes the development and theoretical premises of this branch. Shows how it may be applied to the analysis of a literary work such as Keats's…

Describes the author's experience with a writing group at a summer institute. Reconstructs the writing group's process, describing the evolution of a poem about the death of his sister and the writing group's invaluable assistance in that history. (SR)

Presents the story of grieving nine-year-old Stephanie, who discovers her own rhythmic voice through poetry and writing. Shows how in the process, she begins to move through the intricate mass of denial, grief, and loss buried deep within her. (SR)

Outlines the nature of the contemporary complaints about the decline of poetry and the effects of creative writing programs. Describes generally what creative writing programs try to accomplish. Shows by way of example how these programs can aid a developing poet. (HB)