Description
In everything we have to understand, poetry can help. Tony Hoagland, Harper's , April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers , 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. McPhillipshas 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.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Coming Into a World of Poetry; Poems that Speak to Us; The Soil of Poetry; Building Up a Friendship with Poetry: Structures and Rituals; Poetry MTWTF (Aka Poetry Friday); Young Poets Blogging; Part 2: Reading a Poem: An Immense Intimacy; The Shape of It; Titles Leading Us into a Poem; The Music of It: Reading for Sound; Connecting with a Poem; Dealing with Difficulty; Poem Talk; Who is the Speaker in a Poem?; Part 3: Finding Poems, Making Poems; Dances with Words; Poems Waiting to be Found; Line by Line; The Occasional Poem; Poems for All Seasons; Poets Facing Art: Ekphrastic Poems; Putting on the Mask: Persona Poems; Here's Looking at You: Homage Poems; The Great Shout-Out: Invective Poems; Writing in the Wake of a Poem; Poem Central: The Mystery and Miracle of Words
