Wilkinson, Joshua Marie (ed.): Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook

University of Iowa Press, paperback Publication Date: August 28, 2010 Publisher Marketing:  In response to a lack of source works for wide-ranging approaches to teaching poetry, award-winning poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson has gathered ninety-nine micro-essays for poets, critics, and scholars who teach and for students who wish to learn about the many ways poets think about how a poem comes alive from within--and beyond--a classroom. Not narrowly concerned with how to read poetry or how to write poetry, by virtue of their central concern with teaching poetry, the essays in this fresh and innovative volume address both reading and writing and give teachers and students useful tools for the classroom and beyond. Divided into four sections--"Reflections / Poetics," "Exercises / Praxis," "New Approaches to Poetry Courses and Methodology," and "Talks / Directives"--Poets on Teaching provides practical, intelligent advice. "Reflections / Poetics" encompasses the most expansive approaches to tea