How do you assess such a personal art as poetry? Basing his discussion on the best poems he has collected from his students over the years (included in this book), Collom provides a poet's view on what makes them exceptional. This cheerful and direct approach offers numerous exercises and specific examples of what works, throughout the text, with a summary of his philosophy and methodology at the end.

Moving Windows: Evaluating the Poetry Children Write

Literature & Fiction

Collom, Jack

History & Criticism

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Sixty five alphabetically ordered entries on poetry, each more than two pages, offering exercises, examples and student samples. Also includes seven essays pertaining to teaching poetry, several suggestions on how to use the book, and an appendix showing exercises by school subjectA collection of entries pertaining to virtually all the different forms of poetry. Includes entries on acrostics, definition poems, list poems, odes, “used to/but now” poems, and other innovative forms designed to bolster creative writing.Collom and Noethe truly understand their audience, for they have also addressed the need for ideas on how to integrate poetry into the English core curriculum in a section at the back of the book, filled with essays that guide you through the entire poetry teaching process. There are 11 essays in all, in addition to an appendix of exercises arranged by school subject.

Poetry Everywhere: Teaching poetry Writing in School and in the Community

Noethe, Sheryl

Sixty five alphabetically ordered entries on poetry, each more than two pages, offering exercises, examples and student samples. Also includes seven essays pertaining to teaching poetry, several suggestions on how to use the book, and an appendix showing exercises by school subject A collection of entries pertaining to virtually all the different forms of poetry. Includes entries on acrostics, definition poems, list poems, odes, âused to/but nowâ poems, and other innovative forms designed to bolster creative writing. Collom and Noethe truly understand their audience, for they have also addressed the need for ideas on how to integrate poetry into the English core curriculum in a section at the back of the book, filled with essays that guide you through the entire poetry teaching process. There are 11 essays in all, in addition to an appendix of exercises arranged by school subject.

Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community

Calluses of Poetry

BERNSTEIN, Ken

Poetry

Treehouse Press

Poetry. ANOTHER INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS is the second in an occasional series from Instance Press, collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors into a single volume. ANOTHER INSTANCE contains work by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, and Mark McMorris.

Another Instance: Three Chapbooks

Guthrie, Camille

McMorris, Mark

Instance Press

A book of Collaboration poems by various authors; Jack Collom, Tom Peters, and others.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Drinks

Farfalla Pr

Poetry. EXTREMES & BALANCES is a collection of poetry spanning 50 years of Collom's wonderful sense of experimentation and playfulmode of composition. The book is enhanced by multiple art pieces by Jack Collom.

Extremes & Balances

Farfalla Press

A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. The two poets began working together in 1992, and over the years they have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning. Both poets embrace collaborative authorship as a means of challenging aesthetic preconceptions. In the process, they frequently venture across thematic limits, discovering unexpected coherences. The poems often give themselves over to pleasure, but they are governed by the logic of poetic language and they carry considerable metaphysical depth. Jack Collom is the author of seventeen small-press books of poetry, including Red Car Goes By (Tuumba Press, 2001) and two CDs. He spent the early 1980s in New York, where he taught poetry to children in the Poets In Public Service and Teachers & Writers programs. In 1980 and again in 1990 he was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts. Collom lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.Published collections of Lyn Hejinian’s writing include Writing Is an Aid to Memory, My Life, and The Language of Inquiry. From 1976 to 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press; she is currently the co-director of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets. In the fall of 2000, she was elected the sixty-sixth fellow of The Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Situations, Sings (Adventures in Poetry)

Hejinian, Lyn

Adventures in Poetry

"For only a very few of us, making poems is as natural, as inborn, as breathing. Jack Collom is such a poet. In COLD INSTANT, Collom once again grabs his spirit lollipop, puts on his Captain Rainbow smile, and brings us to 'poetry's perch upon the moment's ledge.' Collom has told us before that ecology is 'everything' and his poetry never fails to partake of the 'radiantly verdant ramifications' of that everything to which he bears witness so keenly. These poems bring it all together--'profusion, extravagance/ invisibility/ holiness'--proving that 'each tiny direction's a universe.' Collom capers with the joy and earnestness of a kid within his wild poetic traceries. His gift to us is to demonstrate that play is the form of wisdom we most urgently need"--Elizabeth Robinson.

Cold Instant

Monkey Puzzle Press

8-Ball

Small Pr Distribution

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