Wham! it's a poetry jam
Subtitle: discovering performance poetry
By: by Sara Holbrook ; foreword by Jane Yolen
Contributors: Yolen, Jane
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Honesdale, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9781563979989
Subjects: Performing arts in literature; Children's poetry; Juvenile poetry
Description: A guide to performing poetry alone and in groups; includes guidelines to set up poetry-performance contests.
Table of contents: title: Twist and shout, get your poetry out: Toot your own horn; title: Call and response, a class act; title: Playing catch with words; title: You've got rhythm; title: Up and at 'em; title: Voice your attitude; title: You are entitled to your point of view; title: Set poetry in motion; title: Two's good company, but a crowd is loud; title: Going solo; title: Developing a split personality; title: Two characters in one; title: Get ready to wham: Word about contests; title: Ready, set, perform: Creating poems for multiple voices; title: Merging unlike poems; title: Perform on; title: Final act.