Open the door
Subtitle: how to excite young people about poetry
By: edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan
Series: Poets in the world; Poets in the world
Publisher: McSweeney's Books; Poetry Foundation
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781938073298; 9781938073281
Subjects: Poetics; Authorship; Poetry and children; Study and teaching; Poetry
Description: 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.
Notes: "Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute "Poets in the world" series editor Ilya Kaminsky."

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