Describes a book of poetry written by teenagers that was published from materials written in poetry workshops or submitted to the Web site of the New York Public Library. Discusses the structure of the workshops, and the multicultural background of many of the teens. (LRW)

Describes one strategy used in high school English classrooms to teach for peace and dislodge violence: the poetry slam, a burgeoning pop culture phenomenon that combines poetry and performance art. Describes poetry slams that incorporate hip-hop culture. Discusses promoting slams in English classrooms to show students the power of words and…

Outlines a night adventure--a poetry hike for a junior high class. Discusses the group poem they worked on and gives examples of poems students produced after listening to readings of several poets' ideas and expressions of "night." (PA)

Describes a workshop in spoken word poetry. Presents a brief history of spoken word poetry. Describes ways of building the community and using hip-hop and rhythm in spoken word poetry. Lists and discusses nine exercises in rhythm and tone. Discusses the final week and the process of revision of the workshop. Concludes with a checklist of logistics…

Presents an interview with Robert Creeley. Discusses his use of short versus long line length. Discusses his poems: "Life and Death,""The Mirror,""Histoire de Florida," and several of his books. (SG)

Discusses poetry books that highlight "the power of language to invite new relationships, to cast familiar experiences in a new light, to fill our minds with the richness of the people around us, and the world around us." Presents several poetry books addressing relationships with written words in a unique format, concepts in language learning,…

Argues that Kenneth Burke used "The Interpretation of Dreams," as well as other works by Sigmund Freud, as a lesson on reading, taking over the central tropes of dreamwork and making them broadly dialectical rather than strictly psychoanalytic terms. Suggests that Freud's "tropology" of dreaming is crucial for reading Burke.…

Describes a variety of books that offer fictional and poetic landscapes--five historical novels set in disparate locales, a book set in medieval Denmark, another addressing the landscape of memory, and a novel about a poet-scientist. (SR)

Presents a creative writing teacher's reminiscence on one of the last days of school as students gather in a stadium to socialize and write a few words in their yearbooks which they have just received. Discusses particular students, their pain, their fearlessness, and the hazards and disappointments that are an inevitable part of life. (TB)

Describes an activity in which students in a creative writing class write and revise poems, and then bake pastries, offering both to an audience of around 50 which assembles to enjoy the event. (SR)

Examines the often attacked television commercial, its messages, and its effects. Considers commercials a contemporary art form, positing that they are deeply linked with the structure of poetry, and compares the TV director with the poet. Suggests that commercials are a "perfect" expression of the television medium--short, intensive,…

Views personal growth through long-term work in various literary genres, including haiku-senryu sequencing, as a continuous process. Demonstrates how self-integration can be enhanced through the creative processing of dream material. (SR)

Attempts to answer the question, Can school science be both a scientific and a literary experience or--in particular-an aesthetic, poetic experience? Highlights the power of poetry to stimulate observation, imagination, and emotion in school science. Examples of poems from published sources are used to illustrate ways in which verse can be used…

Interviews an elementary school teacher who leads a poetry writing workshop in which he uses classical music to help foster creative thinking and writing. Argues that students are more excited about the music and the writing than they would otherwise be about either. (SR)

Describes a poetry group developed for older adults with functional mental health problems, based at a day hospital in the United Kingdom. Evaluates the group's effectiveness using both quantitative pre and post measures and qualitative feedback. Finds that all group members enjoyed the group, and that its benefits seemed to lie on a continuum…