Poetry
We study writing to teach ourselves how writing works. As Nancie Atwell said, “The more I learn about good writing and how to teach it, the more I’m able to ask of students.” (2014)
- Poetry Workshop handouts
- A Lot Like You by Rudy Francisco
- When Love Arrives by Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye
- Good Bones by Maggie Smith
- Kissing in Vietnamese by Ocean Vuong
- After Our Wedding by Yehoshua Nobember
- Beethoven by Shane Koyczan
- The White by Patricia Hampl (a color poem)
- Haddock of Mass Destruction by Danny Martin
- Bus Boy by George Bilgere
- The Husband by Joseph Mills
- Knock Knock and Point B by Daniel Beaty and Sarah Kay
- Hands by Sarah Kay
- How to Live by Charles Harper Webb, from Amplified Dog
- How to Live (with thanks to Charles Webb) by Penny Kittle
- What she craved by Marge Piercy, from The Art of Blessing the Day
- Wild Men (PowerPoint)
- Notebooks NCTE 2012
- Shake the Dust by Anis Mojgani
- Transcript for Sarah Kay's TED Talk: If I should have a daughter ...
- Finding Fearless Ideas: Writing Under the Influence of Beautiful Words, NCTE
- Favorite Quick Writes
- Big Idea Books
- Focus on Craft and Structure of Texts (workshop handout)
- Reading Like a Writer from Katie Wood Ray’s Wondrous Words (workshop handout)
