Where Stars Meet People

Teaching and Writing Poetry in Conversation

AvLeilya A. Pitre

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book is unique. It offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using poetry; however, it doesn’t simply suggest poems grouped by common themes. Each poetry section presents a poetic conversation among the poets on each of the given eight themes. One of the poets initiates each section with an original poem, and the next poet responds to the first, initial, poem. The other poets join the conversation responding to the first, second, or any of the poems previously included in this section. The poems feature the themes of poetry, places, nature, beauty, and harmony, love, loyalty and betrayal, home and family, loss and grief, and dreams and hopes for the future. The three final chapters aim to explain how to use these poems, and poetry in general, in the classrooms and beyond its walls; to invite novice and experienced poets to create various forms of poetry; and to share views on poetry, its teaching, reading, and writing. The various poetry forms are explored in this volume to create poems that help deliver the author’s message. All poems are written exclusively for a diverse readership of the book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-29
Mått:154 x 223 x 8 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:140
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475868777

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Leilya A. Pitre is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Southeastern Louisiana University. She works with secondary English Education majors teaching methods courses, literary analysis, linguistics, and young adult literature.

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Instruction manual, anthology, poetic conversation, meditation on teaching and writing—Where Stars Meet People: Teaching and Writing Poetry in Conversation does the work of an entire bookshelf. This thoughtful text exemplifies the tradition of poems and poets in conversation. In addition to the dialogue sustained by poetry, each section contains a brief lesson on a poetic form for use in a classroom setting. I've never encountered anything quite like Where Stars Meet People, but I can say with certainty that it will make an excellent addition to personal, classroom, and academic libraries.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I. Poetic Journey Through Literary Themes We Are a PoemWhere Paths Meet, Cross, or Come to an EndBeauty Where Some See NoneLove’s Among UsLoyalty at CrossroadsAin’t Nothing More Important than FamilyHeaves of GrievingFor the Purposes of DreamingPart II. Reading and Writing Poetry in ConversationPoetry in the ClassroomWrite with Us More Poems Poetic Conversations Bibliography About the EditorAbout the Contributors