To Light a Fire

20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project

AvTerry Blackhawk,Peter Markus

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their voices with the wider world.” Twenty years later, the program serves some five thousand K–12 students per year, has received national exposure and accolades (including a recent visit to the White House), and has seen numerous student writers recognized for their creativity and performance. In To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, founding director Terry Blackhawk and senior writer Peter Markus collect twenty-one contributions from writers who have participated in InsideOut over the years to give readers an inside look at the urban classroom and the creative spark of Detroit’s students.In short and insightful essays, contributors discuss how iO’s creative magic happened during the course of their work in Detroit schools. Poets such as Jamaal May, John Rybicki, Robert Fanning, and francine j. harris describe the many ways that poetry can be used as a tool to reach others, and how poetic work shaped them as teachers in return. Contributors describe nurturing a love of language, guiding excursions into imagination, and helping students find their own voices. They also describe the difficulties of getting through to kids, the challenges of oversized classrooms, and of working with children who seem to have been forgotten. Despite their own frequent angst and personal uncertainties about doing the right thing, they describe the joys and rewards that come from believing in students and supporting the risks that they take as writers.To Light a Fire captures the story—one poet, poem, and poetic moment at a time—of helping students to discover they can imagine, dream, and speak in a way that will make people listen. Fellow educators, poets, and creative writers will be moved and inspired by this collection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-17
Mått:155 x 227 x 5 mm
Vikt:282 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Made in Michigan Writers Series
Antal sidor:164
Förlag:Wayne State University Press
ISBN:9780814341179

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Mer om författaren

Terry Blackhawk is the founding director of InsideOut Literary Arts Project and a widely awarded educator as well as a poet. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and four full-length collections of poetry including Escape Artist,, winner of the John Ciardi Prize, and The Light Between (Wayne State University Press, 2012). She was named a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow in Literary Arts in 2013.Peter Markus is the senior writer with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project. He is the author of the novel Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as five other books of fiction, the most recent of which is The Fish and the Not Fish. He was named a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow in Literary Arts in 2012.Contributors Include:Matthew Olzmann, Norene Cashen, Robert Fanning, Jamaal May, Suzanne Scarfone, John Rybicki, Anna Clark, Nandi Comer, Gloria Nixon-John, Cindy Frenkel, francine j. harris, Kristine Uyeda, Isaac Miller, Kristin Palm, Stacy Parker Le Melle, Alise Alousi, Chace Morris, Anita Schmaltz, Thomas Park, Julia Putnam, Aricka Foreman, Terry Blackhawk, Peter Markus