Young Readers' Guide to New Poetry...
What would people think of such a thing? A truly contemporary list of poets who might interest young (let's say high school) readers? And tips on how best to teach and best use their work?
Last I checked, ee cummings was still being taught as "wacky new poetry".
Last I checked, ee cummings was still being taught as "wacky new poetry".
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I think it would be great. Tangentially, I always thought a guide that matched music to poets of all eras would be great, i.e. if you like Steely Dan, you'll love John Ashbery.
As an English teacher I would love to have such a resource, if anything to convince all the other English teachers that when teaching poetry one should actually use poetry as opposed to music. A time and a place. But I suppose you have to like poetry and read poetry to want to teach poetry.
I'm going back to the high school classroom after finishing my MFA in poetry, and I'd love such a resource. I've already been thinking about some quirky selections/pairups. In local high schools, from what I've garnered, making it past Whitman equals postmodernism.
Do it will either lesson plans a la Koch's Rose or process essays from the poets themselves. Make it interactive, is what I suggest.
with either--man, I am a typo machineeee
A fine idea, as long as you take care to omit the poetry of Seamus Heaney. That green-shoed, Donegal bearded, whisky-drinker has propigated his perversions of the American-English language for LONG ENOUGH!
Legitimate Dangers is a great anthology of contemporary, emerging writers (no one in it has more than three books, I think). No craft essays, but great poems, and a wide variety of sensibilities. My intro creative writing students liked it a lot.
My 10th grade English teacher used Smashing Pumpkins lyrics. Yep.
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