Today You Are My Favorite Poet is a refreshing look at the art of poetry writing. It is also a vigorous exploration of a variety of approaches—involving form, style, content, and attitude. Hewitt offers proven strategies for writing and revision, provides definitions of a variety of poetic forms, suggests more than thirty writing exercises, outlines a thirty-week poetry curriculum, and best of all, provides numerous models (most of them written by teenagers), all thoughtfully selected to instill confidence in both teacher and student.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Make It New!
1. Anatomy of a Poetry Workshop
2. Experiments: Persona, Discovery, and Reflection
3. Finding Topics, Providing Attitude, and Guiding Revision
4. Word-machines: Writing the Shorter Forms
5. Longer and Lesser-known Forms
6. Music and Wordplay: Breaking Rules and Breaking Lines
7. Metaphor and Simile, Unmetaphor and Symbolism
8. The Poems of Others: Assessing and Responding to Student Poems
9. Writing for Performance, Writing to Publish
10. Portfolios and the Poetry-centered Classroom
Appendix: Six Poems, Six Exercises
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