Description: Teaching Writing through Poetry meets poetry's cultural revival with a clear, practical approach that helps students move beyond raw emotion to craft poems with purpose, structure, and rhetorical power.
Brief description:
Jason Schneiderman has taught creative writing and lectured on poetry for over twenty years. He is the author of five books of poetry as well as the forthcoming essay collection Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture. For many years, he wrote a column for Teachers and Writers on teaching poetic form. He is Professor of English at the City University of New Yorks's Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Adept at working with novices and experts, Schneiderman's approach creates shared knowledge and community within any classroom.
Jason's love of teaching has brought him into many settings outside of the university. He has taught in elementary schools, summer camps, and community based programs. He has been a visiting writer at high schools and colleges across the country, and has worked with both college and high school faculty on successfully integrating writing in their pedagogy. As guest host of The Slowdown, and longtime cohost of Painted Bride Quarterly, his voice has brought both poetry and his understanding of poetry to thousands of listeners. He has received fellowships and awards from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, The Fulbright Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America.Review Quotes:
"Teaching Writing Through Poetry is a gem of a handbook, combining the joyful celebration of poetry with practical guidance from an essential voice in American letters. In each concise chapter, Schneiderman provides a schematic for a different verse form, complete with an overview of its global history and several examples from his own and others' poetry. This book is a series of warm and witty invitations to create, imagine, and reinvent with language. Newcomers to poetry and more advanced writers will find much to learn and enjoy in these pages. This book is a fabulous resource for all writers." --Kiki Petrosino, professor of Creative Writing, University of Virginia
"This dazzling instruction manual makes you want to applaud every chapter-and try every form. Teaching Writing Through Poetry will turn any reader into a poetry adventurer and give any teacher a smooth entrée into poetry that is both useful and delightful. With a casual voice and a complete knowledge of poetry's techniques, Jason Schneiderman executes many of the poetic forms himself, showing how to write them in lucid lines. He even tackles those tough-to-explain tools rhythm and rhyme-and ventures from the ghazal to the ekphrastic. Teaching Writing Through Poetry is more than a handbook-it's a companion in verse." --Molly Peacock, author of "How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle" and "The Widow's Crayon Box: Poems"