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Some Final Comments on Poetry
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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:12:30 -0500
Thank you to everyone who shared comments on poetry over the past two weeks. It's been wonderful to hear about the poems and books you are using and the ways you are incorporating poetry into the lives of the childen and young adults you have contact with both professionally and personally. Feel free to relate any final thoughts, comments and ideas you have today.
I'd like to extend a special thank you to Liz Rosenberg, who took the time to share her insight and experience in compiling poetry collections for children and young adults, and sharing poetry with children.
For all the books and poets we did discuss in recent days, there are so many who we didn't touch upon, or only mentioned, for lack of time--so many poets and compilers who are gracing children's lives with delightful or inspiring or thought-provoking works that revel in the riches of language and the intrigues of the human heart and mind. In addition to individuals such as Liz Rosenberg and Naomi Shihab Nye, whom we already discussed, and Francisco Alarcon, Minfong Ho, Sandra de Coteau Orie, Alice Schertle, Janet Wong and others whose first books of poetry for children and young adults appeared in the 1990s, there are many others whose work young people have been enjoying for many years, including Arnold Adoff, Lucille Clifton, Barbara Juster Esbensen, Mel Glenn, Lilian Moore, Nikki Giovanni, Ruth Gordon, Eloise Greenfield, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Paul Janeczko, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, Pat Mora, Gary Soto...the list goes on.
Many of the poets I have just cited (along with many others) have been profiled in Speaking of Poets (by Jeffrey S. Copeland) or Speaking of Poets 2 (by Jeffrey S. Copeland and Vicky L. Copeland), two collections of interviews with poets who write for children. Both books were published by the National Council of Teachers of English (which also gives the annual NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children).
Even as National Poetry Poetry month comes to an end, we know that the passion for and commitment to poetry, and sharing poetry with children and young adults does not (nor did it start on April 1!). But it's nice to be part of the celebration!
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 30 Apr 1998 11:12:30 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:12:30 -0500
Thank you to everyone who shared comments on poetry over the past two weeks. It's been wonderful to hear about the poems and books you are using and the ways you are incorporating poetry into the lives of the childen and young adults you have contact with both professionally and personally. Feel free to relate any final thoughts, comments and ideas you have today.
I'd like to extend a special thank you to Liz Rosenberg, who took the time to share her insight and experience in compiling poetry collections for children and young adults, and sharing poetry with children.
For all the books and poets we did discuss in recent days, there are so many who we didn't touch upon, or only mentioned, for lack of time--so many poets and compilers who are gracing children's lives with delightful or inspiring or thought-provoking works that revel in the riches of language and the intrigues of the human heart and mind. In addition to individuals such as Liz Rosenberg and Naomi Shihab Nye, whom we already discussed, and Francisco Alarcon, Minfong Ho, Sandra de Coteau Orie, Alice Schertle, Janet Wong and others whose first books of poetry for children and young adults appeared in the 1990s, there are many others whose work young people have been enjoying for many years, including Arnold Adoff, Lucille Clifton, Barbara Juster Esbensen, Mel Glenn, Lilian Moore, Nikki Giovanni, Ruth Gordon, Eloise Greenfield, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Paul Janeczko, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, Pat Mora, Gary Soto...the list goes on.
Many of the poets I have just cited (along with many others) have been profiled in Speaking of Poets (by Jeffrey S. Copeland) or Speaking of Poets 2 (by Jeffrey S. Copeland and Vicky L. Copeland), two collections of interviews with poets who write for children. Both books were published by the National Council of Teachers of English (which also gives the annual NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children).
Even as National Poetry Poetry month comes to an end, we know that the passion for and commitment to poetry, and sharing poetry with children and young adults does not (nor did it start on April 1!). But it's nice to be part of the celebration!
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 30 Apr 1998 11:12:30 AM CDT
