Full Description
Shortlisted for the United Kingdom Literary Association (UKLA) Academic Book Award 2023
A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and writing. Guided by pedagogical principles prompted by their readings of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," Maya Pindyck and Ruth Vinz provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They do this by way of experimental readings of Wallace Stevens' poem toward a set of thirteen pedagogical principles that anchor a pedagogy of poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises, the authors' own engagements with poetry practices, as well as student examples, visual modes of theorizing, and a gathering of relevant resources compiled by two classroom teachers. This is a book for secondary English teachers, teaching artists, English educators, college writing professors, readers and writers of poetry - both existing and aspirational - and any educator interested in poetry's capacities to pedagogically inform their subject matter and/or literacy practices.
Contents
Introduction: Poems and Provocateurs
1. Let the Poem Do the Teaching
2. Speaker, Writer & Reader as Multiplicities
3. Smallness Within the All
4. We Are All In This Together
5. The Quiet and Not-So-Quiet
6. Tensions and Constraints
7. Of Spaces of Wonder and Bewilderment
8. Care for the More-Than-Human
9. Working at the Edges and Peripheries
10. Tapping Sensation's Sap
11. Wrestling With the Mind's Maybe
12. Speculative Possibilities
13. Reorienting Practices
Part II: Invitations
Part III: Resources for Teachers Diana Liu and Ashlynn Wittchow
References
Index
