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The List Poem

Author : Larry Fagin

Publisher :

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 42,41 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Education

ISBN :

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Both a guide and an anthology, this book is for teachers (and self-teachers) who would like to explore the list poem, a flexible poetic form that can be used by beginning writers (from kindergarten to 12th grade) as well as by the most sophisticated. The book: offers practical advice on how to teach list poetry; describes how to work with students to inspire them to write interesting and imaginative list poems; offers specific writing ideas for list poems; defines and discusses the nature of list poetry; traces the historical lineage of list poetry from ancient times; and presents more than 200 examples by adults--from classical and modern literature--and today's children. Chapters in the book are: (1) Historical Background; (2) This Little Piggy (Lists and List Poems); (3) Memories; (4) Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads (Lists in Sei Shonagon's "Pillow Book"); (5) Parts of the Body; (6) Things to Do; (7) Lining Up My Toys (List Poems about Being Alone); (8) I Went Out with Vanessa del Rio (Using Kenneth Koch's Teaching Ideas); (9) How to Behave at a Fancy Party; (10) Menus, Haircuts, Fashion Notes, and Popular Dances; (11) Ingredients; (12) Rhymed Couplets (List Poems Inspired by Walt Whitman and Thanksgiving); and (13) Grab Bag. (RS)



Underneath My Bed

Author : Brian P. Cleary

Publisher : Millbrook Press

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 43,50 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1512411124

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When is a list also a poem? When it's a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written. Underneath My Bed is packed with goofy poems on subjects ranging from summer camp to dinosaurs to messy bedrooms. And when you've finished reading, you can try writing your very own list poem!



Falling Down the Page

Author : Georgia Heard

Publisher : Square Fish

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 39,83 MB

Release : 2011-03-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781596436664

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TRY THIS AT HOME. Poems to inspire young readers. From Eileen Spinelli's many goodbyes to summer at the shore, to Avis Harley's catalog of ways to say hello across the globe, to a close look at the birds and animals outside Valiska Gregory's window in winter...Georgia Heard has collected list poems from contemporary poets. Each list is gathered with a poet's eye – carefully selected details beautifully presented – so that readers see the extraordinary in the ordinary. And so readers are encouraged to be writers. The simplicity of each poem and Georgia Heard's introduction will inspire young poets to write their own.



Solving the World's Problems

Author : Robert Lee Brewer

Publisher :

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 17,76 MB

Release : 2013-09-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781935708902

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The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something



Here's a Little Poem

Author : Jane Yolen

Publisher : Walker

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 42,8 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Children's poetry, American

ISBN : 9781406327113

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An illustrated first book of poetry, 'Here's a Little Poem' contains over 60 verses from noted English and American authors, including Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, John Agard and Grace Nichols.



Underneath My Bed

Author : Brian P. Cleary

Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 39,7 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1467793434

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Explains how to compose a list poem and presents a collection of fifteen list poems on a variety of topics, including summer camp, the bus stop, a wish list, and the lost and found.



Where I'm from

Author : Steven Borsman

Publisher :

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 47,10 MB

Release : 2011

Category : American poetry

ISBN :

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"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House



Unleash the Poem Within

Author : Wendy Nyemaster

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2008-04-01

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1402235275

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Unleash the Poem Within is about friendship, self-reflection and learning something new. It is, quite simply, about how the power of creativity can change your life. This book shows women how to liberate their creative spirit and use it not only as a means of self-expression, but as a way to find more calm, peace and an enhanced ability to see the value in each present moment. Wendy Nyemaster is the founder of the Poetry Posse, a group of ordinary women committed to writing and sharing their creativity as a way to enhance their lives. She guides the reader through twelve different poems and how to write them, and how doing so can unlock their inner power. Unleash the Poem Within shows women that by experimenting with creativity, they can find their voice and live their lives to the fullest.



To Catch a Poem

Author : Santhini Govindan

Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 10,31 MB

Release : 2022-03-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 935490050X

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In an ever changing world, torn by unexpected events and challenges, poetry has the power to soothe, calm, and work a special kind of magic. There are more than a hundred poems in this book, and they have different rhyme schemes and use a variety of literary devices. These poems embody the extraordinary power of words, and they will make readers smile, ponder and question, as they introduce them to the many wonderful forms that poetry, the music of literature, can assume. After you read “To Catch a Poem,” the lines of some of the poems will linger in your mind, and perhaps, help you to catch a poem of your own too!



The Contemporary Narrative Poem

Author : Steven P. Schneider

Publisher : University of Iowa Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 16,85 MB

Release : 2012-12-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1609381254

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Over the past thirty years, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the collection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experimental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of poetry.