Some POL Tools & Resources

POL Tools- assembled from NH teachers and various states

 Resources

• Break, Blow, Burn, Camille Paglia
• Eagle Pond Series at PSU;
• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
• Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
•  In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet�s Portable Workshop by Steve Kowit
• Poetry Everywhere by Jack Collom and Sheryl Noethe
• The Art and Craft of Poetry by Michael J. Bugeja
• Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR�s All Things Considered edited by Catherine Bowman
• Russell Simmons Def Jam on Broadway and More edited by Danny Simmons
• Listen Up: Spoken Word Poetry edited by Zoe Anglesey
• The spoken word revolution: slam, hip hop and the poetry of a new generation edited by Mark Eleveld

Recommended Book:

Alice Fogel’s Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader

Alice’s step by step  process to use to introduce poetry to students:

1.    Shape: poems look different on the page

2.    Words: poems are made up of words

3.    Sound: poems make sounds out of their words, separate from what the words “say”

4.    Images: poems can make you see things that aren’t there

5.    Emotions: poems can make you feel things

6.    Thought: poems can make you think

7.    Literary devices: poems use some of the same ploys as prose

8.    Unknowing: poems can mystify you

Rodger Martin’s technique for Memorizing

Using images to aid recall

o   Visualizing each line of the poem

o   Students create pictures in their head

o   Students draw visual “cue cards” as part of the memorization process

o   This adds another layer of understanding of the work

ONLINE suggestions:

• Watch videos at www.poetryoutloud.org
• Taylor Mali performs Galway Kimmel poem on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2vlCLZ48w