The textbook in an introduction to reading, writing, and experiencing poetry and is appropriate for an introductory poetry class at the high school or undergraduate level. The text is divided into three parts. The first part discusses poetry as a living thing in in the world and offers tips as to how the reader can engage with poetry on a daily basis. Part two offers lessons as to how to read a poem, discussing structure, form, tone, etc. Issues such as voice and meaning are also discussed. The last third of the text is about writing poems. There are suggestions and student examples included. The types of poems one may write are also examined, such as occasional poems, odes, and elegies. The text also includes a list of resources for teachers and students. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
“In everything we have to understand, poetry can help.” —Tony Hoagland, Harper’s, April 2013
In Poem Central, Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms. She introduces us to professional poets, teachers, and students----people of different ages and walks of life---who are actively engaged in reading and making poems. Their stories and their work show us the power of poems to illuminate the ordinary, to nurture, inspire and stand alongside us for the journey.
Poem Central is divided into three main parts—weaving poetry into our lives and our classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. Shirley has structured the book in short sections that are easy to read and dip into. Each section has a specific focus, provides background knowledge, shows poets at work, highlights information on crafting, defines poetic terms, features finished work, includes classroom examples, and lists additional resources.
In Poem Central—a place where people and poems meet—teachers and students will discover how to find their way into a poem, have conversations around poems, and learn fresh and exciting ways to make poems. Readers will enjoy the dozens of poems throughout the book that serve to instruct, to inspire, and to send us on unique word journeys of the mind and heart.
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PART 1 COMING INTO A WORLD OF POETRY |
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Building Up a Friendship with Poetry: Structures and Rituals |
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Poetry MTWTF (Aka Poetry Friday) |
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PART 2 READING A POEM: AN IMMENSE INTIMACY |
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Titles Leading Us into a Poem |
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The Music of It: Reading for Sound |
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Who Is the Speaker in a Poem? |
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PART 3 FINDING POEMS, MAKING POEMS |
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115 | (16) |
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Poems Waiting to Be Found |
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131 | (16) |
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147 | (21) |
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168 | (10) |
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Poets Facing Art: Ekphrastic Poems |
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Putting on the Mask: Persona Poems |
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225 | (20) |
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Here's Looking at You: Homage Poems |
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245 | (9) |
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The Great Shout-Out: Invective Poems |
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254 | (8) |
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Writing in the Wake of a Poem |
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262 | (8) |
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Poem Central: The Mystery and Miracle of Words |
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| Resources for Teachers and Students |
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| References |
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| Credits |
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SHIRLEY MCPHILLIPS coauthored, with Nick Flynn, A Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching from Poems We Love (Stenhouse, 2000). She is poet laureate for Choice Literacy online. She has published poems in Sewanee Review, Compass Rose, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Edison Literary Review, Poets Online, and elsewhere. A teacher for many years, literacy consultant, and speaker, Shirley also paints, travels, sings sixteenth-century music, and walks with nature. She is writing a poetry collection tentatively titled Bowing to Doves.
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