An edition of Open the door
(2013)
Open the door
how to excite young people about poetry
by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan
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This mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans will prove useful for first-time and veteran teachers, parents, MFA graduates and the like, with an interest in poetry's place in the lives of our younger citizens.
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Open the door: how to excite young people about poetry
2013, McSweeney's Books, Poetry Foundation
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1938073290 9781938073298
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Table of Contents
Introduction : opening the door / -- Dominic Luxford -- pt. 1. Essays.
The read-aloud handbook -- Jim Trelease
Poetry is an egg with a horse inside -- Matthea Harvey
The process of opening gifts -- Jack Collom
Life as primary text -- James Kass
Teaching children to write poetry -- Kenneth Koch
The care and feeding of a child's imagination -- Ron Padgett
First class -- Theodore Roethke
Children's poetry -- Eileen Myles
The change agents -- Phillip Lopate
Recitation, imitation, stillness -- Jesse Nathan
Fears, truths, and waking life -- Jordan Davis
The door called poetry -- William Stafford
Making the rounds -- Jimmy Santiago Baca
Radical strategies -- Karen Volkman
A dream -- Dorothea Lasky -- pt. 2. Roundtable discussion.
Featuring leaders of poetry organizations for kids from around the United States -- Dave Eggers ... [et al.] -- pt. 3. Lesson plans.
Dream machine -- Michael Dickman
Attending the living word/world -- Elizabeth Bradfield
Eavesdropping on a figure at work -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Syllabus -- Meghan and Liam O'Rourke
Three imaginary soundtracks -- Eric Baus
A perfect creature in the imperfect world -- Valzhyna Mort
Poems are for everybody -- Alex Dimitrov -- Cartogram / -- Anthony McCann
The image list -- Michael McGriff
Elsewhere -- Katie Ford
Bad titles -- Matthew Zapruder
Street sonnets -- Deborah Landau
Autobiographia litter-aria -- Christina Davis
Putting two and two together -- Dara Wier
Dreaming in detail -- Travis Nichols
Be a bunch of yous -- Laura Solomon -- (Soma)tic poetry exercises / -- CAConrad
Eating couplets and haiku -- Vicki Vértiz
The sonnet as a silver marrow spoon -- Adam O'Riordan
Verse journalism -- Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
Persona poetry -- Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
A poetry of perception -- Rebecca Lindenberg
Poetry walk -- Harriet Levin
Love is the universe -- Emilie Coulson
Advice for teachers -- Stephen Burt-- Afterword : a call to action (or what to do after reading this book).
Edition Notes
"Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute "Poets in the world" series editor Ilya Kaminsky."
Includes bibliographical references.
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