From: Meg Kavanagh <kavanagh>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:24:25 -0500

I like "poetry sequence" or "poetic sequence" or just "sequence" to describe this kind of book. Some young people really enjoy reading and writing sequences. A good example of a book like this is A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes (Clarion, 2001). It's definitely a collection of individual poems (using different forms, like haiku or free verse, that show different views of the same subjects), and not a novel, but each poem has a relationship with the others. The speaker in each is the same cool, bespeckled kid with braids (Tiana), pulling tantalizing words out of her pocket, making poems that relate, face off, and sing in a sort of call and response. I like the potential writing projects pairs of kids in kindergarten through fourth could do together using, call and response and two different forms to talk about the same thing, after a poetry advocate shares this awesome book.
Received on Sun 06 Apr 2003 02:24:25 PM CDT