Today You Are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems with Teenagers » (1st Edition)

GEOF HEWITT started writing poems as a teenager. Ten years later, he was teaching teenagers and publishing their poems, while publishing and performing his own work in venues as diverse as Harpers, The Paris Review, Exquisite Corpse, the Whitney Museum, and the Honolulu Zoo. Hewitt brings his quirky sense of "poetry" to his workshops with junior high and high school students, and continues to write, publish, and perform his poems wherever he can. Hewitt teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Vermont College and serves as Writing/Secondary English Consultant to the Vermont Department of Education. In 1995, Heinemann published his first book for teachers, A Portfolio Primer: Teaching, Collecting, and Assessing Student Writing.

Today You Are My Favorite Poet is a refreshing look at the art of poetry writing.

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Make It New!
Anatomy of a Poetry Workshop
Experiments: Persona, Discovery, and Reflection
Finding Topics, Providing Attitude, and Guiding Revision
Word-machines: Writing the Shorter Forms
Longer and Lesser-known Forms
Music and Wordplay: Breaking Rules and Breaking Lines
Metaphor and Simile, Unmetaphor and Symbolism
The Poems of Others: Assessing and Responding to Student Poems
Writing for Performance, Writing to Publish 1
Portfolios and the Poetry-centered Classroom Appendix: Six Poems, Six Exercises Works Cited Bibliography