QUESTION:
Education World: A Poem A day: "Are you teaching poetry in a way that makes your students think they have to "tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it"? Do you wonder why so many of your students profess to hate reading any kind of poetry? U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins says that now is the time to make a 180-degree turn in your approach to poetry in the classroom. Teachers who have followed Collins's advice say he's right! Included: Contributions from students whose opinion of poetry has made a 180 turn." YoungPoets.ca: Teacher's Staff Lounge Seeing with the Heart: Poetry in the Classroom Painlessly Bringing Poetry into Your Classroom by K. J. Wagner A Teacher Who Makes Writing Poetry as Exciting as Stickball (NYT, Nov/1970) BOOKS ABOUT TEACHING POETRY:
Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch
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