A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers

This book invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises 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,? the authors provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They do this through experimental readings of Stevens' poem toward 13 pedagogical principles anchoring a pedagogy of poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises, student examples, visual modes of theorizing, and a gathering of relevant resources compiled by two classroom teachers.