Amazing things can happen when adult education classes and poetry meet.
Poetry builds confidence in inexperienced writers who discover they can produce poetry that is imaginative, funny, and powerful. As is true with all writing, poetry is a place where fluency, vocabulary, and spelling skills can be practiced and improved. Here are a few good books that are full of ideas for reading and writing poetry. The following two works were written to introduce children to poetry, but there is nothing childish about many of the ideas in them. Teachers can easily use the poems and ideas in these books with adults.