Suzanne Keyworth, Cassandra Robison

Writing and Understanding Poetry for Teachers and Students

A Heart's Craft

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and learning to write poems, that scaffolded learning builds a writer's and a reader's confidence and knowledge base and increases learning, and that teachers and facilitators of poetry can and should build learning environments we call "our hearts in a safe place." Each chapter contains an introduction to a main focus, new terms, a model poem, an explication, short prompts heuristic to each chapter's focus, and a model exercise. Student poem samples are included in each chapter. The last chapter discusses syllabi, portfolios and alternate grading. A Heart's Craft differs from other poetry" how to books" because it combines art with pedagogy in a unique and effective fashion.

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This book can be used by instructors as the structure for their literature/poetry classes, it can be studied and enjoyed by lovers of poetry to increase their knowledge of the fundamentals, or it can be used in an English, reading, or creative writing classroom. Throughout the book powerful poems serve as models of how poems create meaning and what devices they use in the craft. Each chapter is designed to strategically move from model to guided practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781475814071
• ISBN-10: 1475814070
• Artikelnr.: 41757495

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Keyworth was the advisor for an award winning student magazine at State College of Florida for nearly two decades, and obtained her MA from Hollins University and her MFA from Warren Wilson College. A 6th generation Floridian, she has a chapbook titled When the Distance Closes In as well as a book of poetry, Markers. Cassandra Robison, Ph.D., now Faculty Emeritus, was faculty advisor for the multi- award winning student literary magazine Imprints at the College of Central Florida where she taught Creative Writing, English, and American Literature. Of Swedish heritage, she has two chapbooks titled Leaving the Pony and Tundra Heart.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - Some Initial Thoughts on Poets and Poetry, Workshopping Poems,
and the Creative Process Learning from Master Poets or Masterful Poems What
is a Strong Poem? Portfolios: Preserving and Sharing Work The Concept of
Modeling Welcoming the Muse A Journaling Idea Workshopping Advice: Our
Hearts in a Safe Place Some Helpful Ideas about Workshopping Poems Workshop
Guidelines to Share with Participants The Model Exercise: If You Stare At
Something Long Enough... Sample Student Poems Chapter 2 - Beyond the
Ordinary: Witnessing the World as a Poet Terms Used in This Chapter The
Model Poem The Explication The Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter
3 - Imagery-Getting to the Heart of It Terms Used in This Chapter The Model
Poem The Explication Exercises for Students The Model Exercise Sample
Student Poem Chapter 4 - Metaphors and Symbols-Finding and Using Creative
Analogies Terms Used in This Chapter The Model Poem The Explication
Exercises for Students The Model Exercise Chapter 5 - Line Endings, Turns,
and Epiphanies-More Essentials Elements of Craft Terms Used in This Chapter
The Model Poem The Explication Exercises for Students Alternate Model Poem
Alternate Model Exercise Chapter 6 - The Speaker and the Reader: A Dialogue
The Model Poem The Explication Exercises for Students The Modeling Exercise
Chapter 7 - Narrative Poetry-Poems that Tell Stories Terms Used in This
Chapter The Model Poem The Explication Exercises for Students The Model
Exercise Alternate Model Poem The Explication Alternate Model Exercise
Sample Student Poems Chapter 8 - Communicating Emotional Truths and
Avoiding Melodrama Terms Used in This Chapter Model Poem The Explication
Exercises for Students The Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 9 -
Writing in Other Voices Terms Used in This Chapter The Model Poem The
Explication Exercises for Students The Model Exercise The Alternate Model
Poem Alternate Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 10 - Sound
Devices Terms Used in This Chapter The Model Poem The Explication Exercises
for Students The Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 11 -
Punctuation - A Surprisingly Creative Tool Terms Used in This Chapter The
Model Poem The Explication Exercises for Students The Model Exercise Sample
Student Poems Chapter 12 - Effective Titles-Hints at Theme The Model Poem A
The Explication The Model Poem B The Explication Exercises for Students The
Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 13 - Nature as Muse Terms Used
in This Chapter The Model Poem The Explication The Model Exercise Exercises
for Students The Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 14 - The Prose
Poem: A Revelatory Form Terms Used in This Chapter The Model Poem The
Explication Model Poem B The Explication Exercises for Students The Model
Exercise Alternate Model Exercise Sample Student Poems Chapter 15 - Writing
in Various Forms Terms Used in This Chapter Model Sonnets The Villanelle
Model Villanelle Exercises for Students The Model Exercise Sample Student
Poems Chapter 16 - Portfolios, Presentations, Aural Modeling, and Syllabi:
Portfolios Literary Magazines Aural Modeling Syllabi and Other Types of
Workshop Organization Sample Syllabus Displaying Portfolio Sharing
Alternate Week 16 Alternate Week 17: Celebration & Presentation