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From: Megan Schliesman <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:03:27 -0600
Thank you to Lisa Von Drasek for sharing the wonderful experience you and the students at Bank Street College had when Liz Rosenberg came!
Who else has had a poet visit their school or library, either for a small group of sessions or for an extended "poet-in-the-schools" experience?
William Mayes mentioned Ruth Gordon's Pierced by a Ray of Sun
(HarperCollins, 1995). I greatly appreciate this and her other anthologies for young adults, in which the poems are always gathered around a theme (as are many of the best young adult poetry anthologies), and collected from the past and present. Thematic collections can give readers an entry into each individual poem simply by encouraging them to ask in what way does this poem fit the theme. Often the compilers of anthologies expand upon the idea expressed in the title with an introduction of some sort. This is always the first thing I go to in a poetry anthology. Ruth Gordon's books have a short, wonderfully stated
"Note to the Reader" that provides insight into what she was thinking when putting together poems for her collections, framing them, but never containing them, never insisting that they fit any rigid point of view--there's a wonderful flowing feeling to the her anthologies as a result, an almost stream-of-consciousness quality.
Naomi Shihab Nye and Liz Rosenberg often have longer introductions that speak about poetry itself as well as the focus of their collections. They inspire me to dive into the experience of each poem with my heart wide open.
What are some of your other favorite collections of poetry for young adults, or for children?
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu 608&2?03
Received on Wed 15 Apr 1998 05:03:27 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:03:27 -0600
Thank you to Lisa Von Drasek for sharing the wonderful experience you and the students at Bank Street College had when Liz Rosenberg came!
Who else has had a poet visit their school or library, either for a small group of sessions or for an extended "poet-in-the-schools" experience?
William Mayes mentioned Ruth Gordon's Pierced by a Ray of Sun
(HarperCollins, 1995). I greatly appreciate this and her other anthologies for young adults, in which the poems are always gathered around a theme (as are many of the best young adult poetry anthologies), and collected from the past and present. Thematic collections can give readers an entry into each individual poem simply by encouraging them to ask in what way does this poem fit the theme. Often the compilers of anthologies expand upon the idea expressed in the title with an introduction of some sort. This is always the first thing I go to in a poetry anthology. Ruth Gordon's books have a short, wonderfully stated
"Note to the Reader" that provides insight into what she was thinking when putting together poems for her collections, framing them, but never containing them, never insisting that they fit any rigid point of view--there's a wonderful flowing feeling to the her anthologies as a result, an almost stream-of-consciousness quality.
Naomi Shihab Nye and Liz Rosenberg often have longer introductions that speak about poetry itself as well as the focus of their collections. They inspire me to dive into the experience of each poem with my heart wide open.
What are some of your other favorite collections of poetry for young adults, or for children?
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu 608&2?03
Received on Wed 15 Apr 1998 05:03:27 PM CDT
