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Teaching Writing Through Poetry

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Teaching Writing Through Poetry

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Poetry is experiencing a cultural renaissance in the United States, capturing attention in ways not seen since the days of Robert Frost and Rod McKuen. With Amanda Gorman's rise to fame and Rupi Kaur drawing stadium-sized crowds, students are engaging with poetry on social media and discovering it as an accessible and expressive art form. Teaching Writing through Poetry, the 2nd book in a new series on Teaching Writing meets this moment by offering a structural approach that demystifies poetic form and illustrates how poems make rhetorical demands through formal choices. Designed for both seasoned poetry lovers and hesitant beginners, the book provides clear, practical guides for reading and writing poems. It helps students move beyond the misconception that poetry is simply unshaped emotional expression and instead equips them to appreciate and create poetry with intention and craft.
Series;
This series for K-12 and collegiate writing and English teachers, educators, curriculum specialists, and preservice teacher education candidates provides methods, pedagogy and practical exercises in the teaching of writing.

Books in the series explore the vast array of ideas, strategies and topics that actively engage students in developing skills that will help them become better writers, critical readers and critical thinkers. These fresh methodologies will expand students' ideas on what writing means, as well as what learning can mean. Various approaches in the series will rejuvenate instructors and feed educators' own desires as lifelong learners.

Each book is meant to make the educators lives both easier and more fulfilling, as the texts in this series include a plethora of writing exercises, prompts and approaches. Many titles will benefit educators from various disciplines who are interested in implementing more writing into their curriculum.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Form is Content
1. An Arbitrary Order Still Makes Demands: The Abecedarian
2. Looking in the Broken Mirror: The Ghazal
3. The Divided Self is a Field of Play: The Sonnet
4. Satellites and Snowballs: The Villanelle
5. An Obsession is a Tether: The Sestina
6. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Pantoum
7. Write What You See: Ekphrastic Poems
8. Structuring Devices: Rhythm, Rhyme, and Line
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Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 27 Nov 2025
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781475874785
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Teaching Writing Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Jason Schneiderman

Jason Schneiderman has taught creative writing and…

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