Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers

Maya Pindyck is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at Moore College of Art and Design, USA. Ruth Vinz is Morse Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Diana Liu and Ashlynn Wittchow are doctoral students at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. They contributed to the book's Resources section.

• Introduction: Poems and Provocateurs 1. Let the Poem Do the Teaching 2. Speaker, Writer & Reader as Multiplicities 3. Smallness Within the All 4. We Are All In This Together 5. The Quiet and Not-So-Quiet 6. Tensions and Constraints 7. Of Spaces of Wonder and Bewilderment 8. Care for the More-Than-Human 9. Working at the Edges and Peripheries10. Tapping Sensation’s Sap 11. Wrestling With the Mind’s Maybe 12. Speculative Possibilities 13. Reorienting Practices Part II: Invitations Part III: Resources for Teachers Diana Liu and Ashlynn Wittchow ReferencesIndex

This book is the antidote to reading a textbook about how to teach poetry. You will come away from reading this book feeling refreshed, energized and ready to re-introduce poetry to not only your students, but to everyone in your life.