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Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry
Open the Door How to Excite Young People about Poetry This one-of-a-kind mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans gathers the best thinking about how we can impart the value and joy of poetry to kids. — The essays in the first section—from Matthea Harvey, Ron Padgett, William Stafford, Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Theodore Roethke, and many others—illuminate the importance of poetry to a well-... more »rounded education, in and out of traditional classroom settings. The next section is a roundtable conversation among a handful of creative men and women who?ve helped set up or run poetry education centers around the United States. In the book?s final segment, award-winning poets offer an array of brilliant lesson plans for people teaching poetry to kids of all ages.
Open the Door will be useful for first-time and veteran teachers, as well as parents, babysitters, MFA graduates, and anyone else with an interest in poetry?s place in the lives of our younger citizens.« less