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From: Megan Schliesman <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:52:24 -0600
To begin our discussion of poetry during this National Poetry Month, I invite you to consider two new anthologies of poetry for young adults: Earth-Shattering Poems, edited by Liz Rosenberg (Edge Books/Henry Holt) and The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster). Both of these books, like other oustanding anthologies of poetry collected for young adults, offer a rich, challenging but ultimately accessible literary experience that invites readers to search within and without, to find notes that sound their own lives and those that form a countermelody, deepening their understanding of this music we call life.
Who has had a chance to explore either or both of these anthologies, or either of these individual's earlier books? Liz Rosenberg was also the editor of The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers (Henry Holt, 1996), and Naomi Shihab Nye has edited This Same Sky: Poems from Around the World (Four Winds Press, 1992); The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs (co?ited with Paul Janeczko, Simon & Schuster, 1996). Please share any comments you have.
I also invite everyone to start thinking about the books of poetry you especially like to share with children and young adults, and the times that you like to share them. Do you include poetry as part of every storytime? Do you open or close a class with poetry? Have you found books or poems to use in specific areas of the curriculum? What are the ways that you incorporate poetry into your work with young people?
Megan Schliesman
Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608&3720 FAX: 608&2I33 ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Mon 13 Apr 1998 03:52:24 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:52:24 -0600
To begin our discussion of poetry during this National Poetry Month, I invite you to consider two new anthologies of poetry for young adults: Earth-Shattering Poems, edited by Liz Rosenberg (Edge Books/Henry Holt) and The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster). Both of these books, like other oustanding anthologies of poetry collected for young adults, offer a rich, challenging but ultimately accessible literary experience that invites readers to search within and without, to find notes that sound their own lives and those that form a countermelody, deepening their understanding of this music we call life.
Who has had a chance to explore either or both of these anthologies, or either of these individual's earlier books? Liz Rosenberg was also the editor of The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers (Henry Holt, 1996), and Naomi Shihab Nye has edited This Same Sky: Poems from Around the World (Four Winds Press, 1992); The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs (co?ited with Paul Janeczko, Simon & Schuster, 1996). Please share any comments you have.
I also invite everyone to start thinking about the books of poetry you especially like to share with children and young adults, and the times that you like to share them. Do you include poetry as part of every storytime? Do you open or close a class with poetry? Have you found books or poems to use in specific areas of the curriculum? What are the ways that you incorporate poetry into your work with young people?
Megan Schliesman
Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608&3720 FAX: 608&2I33 ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Mon 13 Apr 1998 03:52:24 PM CDT
