Poetry and Sustainability in Education

Sandra Lee Kleppe is Professor of English-language literature at Inland Norway University. She is author of The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current (2013), editor/co-author of Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century (2015), and co-editor/co-author of Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan: Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts (with Angela Sorby, 2018).Angela Sorby is Professor of English at Marquette University. Her prior books include Distance Learning (1998); Schoolroom Poets (2005); Bird Skin Coat (2009); The Sleeve Waves (2014); Over the River and Through the Wood (with Karen Kilcup, 2013); and Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan (with Sandra Kleppe, 2018).

• PART I: LEARNING WITH THE BIOSPHERE: BIRDS, BEES, FLOWERS AND TREES.- Chapter 1. Birdsong, Poetry and Sustainability in Education.- Chapter 2. “Hanging on for the Bees”: Teaching with Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.- Chapter 3. “These Things Never Happened but Are Always”: Why Tree Poems Matter.- Chapter 4. Listening to Animals for a Change. On Teaching Animal Poetry from a Critical Rhetorical Perspective.- Chapter 5. Indigenous Poetry and Sustainability: Troubling Anthropocene Logic through Kinship, Wholeness and Care.- PART II: POETIC LITERACY AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 6. Poetic Learning for a Sustainable Future: Transforming Our Collective.- Chapter 7. "Whose Action Is No Stronger than a Flower?”: Poetry, Education and Environmental Crisis.- Chapter 8. First World War Poetry and Historical Literacy.- Chapter 9. Ecopoetry, Pedagogical Encounters and Holding Absence Present: Ideas for ClassroomsPART III: POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, ANDTHE PLANET.- Chapter 10. Towards a Pedagogy of The Transversal: Using Félix Guattari’s Ecosophical Aesthetics for Teaching Poetry.- Chapter 11. “Right has just left”: Learning from Concurrency and the Experiential Aspect of the Ongoing in Cia Rinne’s Poetic Work.- Chapter 12. The Message of Poetry or Poetry as Messenger: The Poetics of Sustainability in the Pedagogical Context.- Chapter 13. Towards a Sustainable Imagination: Reflections on Olav H. Hauge and the Teaching of Poetry.