A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers

Reorienting Classroom Literacy Practices

Maya Pindyck, Ruth Vinz, Diana Liu, Ashlynn Wittchow

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350285385
• eBook ISBN: 9781350285408
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages

A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and writing. Guided by pedagogical principles prompted by their readings of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, " Maya Pindyck and Ruth Vinz provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They do this by way of experimental readings of Wallace Stevens' poem toward a set of thirteen pedagogical principles that anchor a pedagogy of poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises, the authors' own engagements with poetry practices, as well as student examples, visual modes of theorizing, and a gathering of relevant resources compiled by two classroom teachers. This is a book for secondary English teachers, teaching artists, English educators, college writing professors, readers and writers of poetry – both existing and aspirational – and any educator interested in poetry's capacities to pedagogically inform their subject matter and/or literacy practices.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Credits
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Poems as Provocateurs
• Part I
• Part II Invitations
• Part III Resources for Teachers
• References
• Index
• Copyright