A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with
poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in
order 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," Maya Pindyck and Ruth Vinz
provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary
classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They
do this by way of experimental readings of Wallace Stevens' poem toward
a set of thirteen pedagogical principles that anchor a pedagogy of
poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises, the
authors' own engagements with poetry practices, as well as student
examples, visual modes of theorizing, and a gathering of relevant
resources compiled by two classroom teachers. This is a book for
secondary English teachers, teaching artists, English educators, college
writing professors, readers and writers of poetry - both existing and
aspirational - and any educator interested in poetry's capacities to
pedagogically inform their subject matter and/or literacy practices.