The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults

The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults

by Shelley Savren
The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults

The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults

by Shelley Savren

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Overview

A college student writes: “These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets.”

An inmate in a maximum-security men’s prison writes: “Within my writing, I am able to break down my prison walls and escape, leave the gangster façade behind.”

The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults draws from Shelley Savren’s forty years of teaching poetry writing to a diverse array of students, from teens with mental health issues to seniors to adults with developmental disabilities, and in a wide variety of settings, which include middle schools, high schools, colleges, juvenile halls, women’s centers, and a men’s prison.

Each chapter includes an original poem from Savren, heartfelt stories, and lesson plans that introduce poetic concepts through model poems by professionals, open-ended writing assignments, methods for sharing and critiquing, and student poems. Designed for use in a classroom or community setting, this book features forty-one lesson plans and nineteen more poetry-writing workshop ideas and provides guidance and inspiration for teaching poetry writing to teens and adults.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781475827934
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/12/2016
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 196
Sales rank: 745,027
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Shelley Savren is the author of two poetry books, The Common Fire (Red Hen Press 2004) and The Wild Shine of Oranges (Tebot Bach Press 2013), and Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). She is an English professor emeritus at Oxnard College and has been teaching poetry writing for the past forty years. Visit her at www.shelleysavren.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Serious about Poems: Middle School and High School
Chapter 2: Can Words Save Me? Teens with Mental Health Issues
Chapter 3: Does Anybody Love Me? Juvenile Justice
Part I: Girls’ Rehabilitation Facility
Part II: Colston Youth Center
Chapter 4: Poetry in Academia
Chapter 5: I Remember: Cedar Community Center for Senior Citizens
Chapter 6: Every Bird Can Sing: St. Madeline Sophie’s Training Center
Chapter 7: The Feminist Poet: Women Take Back Words
Chapter 8: Freedom Journey: R.J. Donovan Maximum Security Men’s Prison
Appendix: Additional Exercise Ideas
Resources
About the Author
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