Focuses upon the movement of the creative spirit and the impact of listening in the collaborative oral composition process for elderly residents. Draws some conclusions about the relationship between poetry, innocence, and healing. (SR)

Discusses how Langston Hughes poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," vividly describes the connectivity between Black people and home and the world. Notes how it subconsciously validated the author's feeling and supported her need to know that it was all right and wonderful to write words that celebrated Black families and the neighborhoods and…

Describes a workshop on "slam poetry" and details how this form of performance poetry can lead students back to the written poem with a renewed sense of connection and understanding. Suggests a class exercise that can be adapted to either a creative writing or a literature unit. (SG)

This article features the art and poetry of two patients, and details the process of bringing creative, expressive arts into counseling with adolescents living with acute or chronic illness. (Contains 17 references.) (GCP)

Explores some of William Blake's poetry that is suitable for middle school readers and its relationships to a number of current works for young adults. Highlights the "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and suggests how Blake might be connected to other literary and musical works. Hopes to encourage teachers to reread or read some of…

Considers the author's own experience with "voice" in her graduate studies pursuing poetry writing, women's literature, and composition theory. Notes that because voice as a metaphor has been called into question, many female educators have grown reluctant to use it. Discusses how a metaphor like voice can successfully imply both the…

Considers how the author has seen the best minds of his generation destroyed by faulty pedagogy. Argues that the traditional workshop model was designed as a method for teaching elite graduate students, but notes that many undergraduate poetry writing instructors still employ it. Presents and elaborates on an alternative "Five-Canon" approach to…

Considers how including the study of poetry in freshman composition, particularly contemporary poetry with no critical history, sometimes leads to a dilemma. Suggests that because of the diversity of freshman and the nature of poetry itself, they need less specialized instruction, which requires the tangle of trying to teach analytical terms while…

Argues for the canonicity of "Sonnet: The Token," a John Donne poem whose authorship has been in doubt for some decades. Employs deconstruction as its critical approach, though that approach is nearly passe in Renaissance studies, and it calls the issue of authorship into question. (TB)

Through a literary and philosophical analysis of the poem "Metaphors of a Magnifico" by Wallace Stevens, expresses the need in applied linguistics to address the individual's experience of language. Argues that applied linguistics works with idealized abstractions that sanitize and exclude the "private residue of the individual experience."…

Presents a practice report that profiles the use of collaborative writing techniques in a dual-diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment program. Provides examples of typical patient-generated collaborative poems. Concludes that collaborative group poetry, when effectively facilitated, can generate a meaningful process-discussion toward values…

Suggests that poetry can convey a maximum amount of thought and feeling in the fewest and most carefully chosen words. Discusses the importance of teaching poetry to young students. Annotates 17 Internet websites which provide teachers with valuable resources for finding great poetry, information on poets, Internet projects involving poetry, and…

The approach of task-based instruction is too narrow a theoretical framework to properly analyze the use of poetry in such a context. Argues that Hanauer's study contains a methodological error, which is due in part to the fact that the definition of a language-based task as an activity focusing on interpreting meaning and solving some sort of…

Notes the villanelle is one of English poetry's most demanding forms. Discusses two distinct ways in which a villanelle unfolds - as a satellite or as a snowball. Describes how the meaning of the repeating lines in a snowball villanelle change and increase with each recurrence. Presents exercises for teaching the villanelle. (SG)

Expresses concern over students' weakness for hyperbole. Notes that in order to engage students in the process of exploring what they do not know, teachers need to convince them that clarity and understatement requires as much imagination as hyperbole and exaggeration. Presents a teaching exercise that encourages students to write about what they…