Teachers & Writers Magazine

Winter 2012-2013 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Read The Story We Tell Ourselves Afterward: At the Veterans Writing Workshop
by David Surface

 

 

 

Fall 2012 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 44, Number 1

Read A Kid Named A. by Michael Copperman

Read ideas and exercises for creating your own poem project from A Poem as Big as New York City 

 

Summer 2012 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 43 Number 4
Read Take It Away! Inspired Summer Writing Ideas from Writers in the Schools

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2012 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 43 Number 3
Read Three Classroom Writing Exercises for National Poetry Month

1. Exercising the Imagination: Teaching May Swenson’s “Cardinal Ideograms” to Elementary School Students,
by Jane LeCroy

                                 2. Rosebuds Folded Over in Sleep:
                                 Teaching the Sonnets of Ishle Yi Park to High School Students
                                 by Bushra Rehman

                                3. Because Poems:
                                Teaching Ross Gay's "The Truth" to Middle and High  School Students
                                by Sarah Dohrmann

 

Winter 2011-2012 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 43 Number 2
Read  Poetry Circus: Eliciting Playfulness and the Unexpected Teaching the Poems of Kenneth Koch by Joanna Fuhrman

 

 

 

Fall 2011 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 43 Number 1
Read The Sky is the Limit by Matthew Burgess

 

 

 

 

 

Summer 2011 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 42 Number 4
Read the interview with Dennis Lehane.
Read Barbara Feinberg’s article Ruby; On Not Editing Children.

 

 

Spring 2011 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 42 Number 3
Read about Poetry Inside Out by Marty Rutherford, Elizabeth Lacy, Jennifer Romanoff, and Sari Wilson.

Winter 2010-2011 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 42 Number 2
Read David Mcloghlin’s snapshot of teaching artist Melanie Goodreaux
Read Bechtel prize winner Garth Greenwall article on writing the city in Sofia, Bulgaria

Fall 2010 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 42 Number 1
Read Daniel Godston’s article To Arrive at the Vision of Gas Lamps as Angels

Summer 2010 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 41 Number 4
Read Matthew Burgess’ article Teaching Poetry and Dance.
Read Michael Morse’s article Teaching the Elegy.

Spring 2010 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 41 Number 3
Read Jason SChneiderman’s article Teaching the Ghazal.

Winter 2009-2010 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 41 Number 2
Read Emily Raboteau’s Bechtel winning essay article A Slip Into the Breaks, Teaching Jazz Poetry.

Fall 2009 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 41 Number 1
Read Rachel DeWoskin’s article Lost and Found in Translation, Life in a Second Language.

Summer 2009 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 40 Number 4
Read Matthew Burgess’ article Plays Well with Others on collaborative poems in the classroom.

Spring 2009 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 40 Number 3
Read Bill Zavatsky’s article If Dogs Fly, Let Them Fly! on dream poems.

Winter 2008-2009 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 40 Number 2
Read Bechtel winner, Michael Bazzett’s essay on making students at home in the language of literature.

Fall 2008 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 40 Number 1
Read Matthew Burgess’ article, See What Happens, Teaching Poems on Poetry.

Summer 2008 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 39 Number 3
From this special comics in the classroom issue, read Michael Bitz’s article, A Rare Bridge, The Comic Book Project Connects Learning with Life

Spring 2008 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 39 Number 3
Esther H. Rosenfeld’s article, Breaking New Ground, A Classroom Teacher’s View of T&W
Ron Padgett’s Teaching Diary Excerpts, 1969-1970.

Winter 2007-2008 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 39 Number 2
Read an excerpt: Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein on teaching invented poetic forms.

Fall 2007 TEACHERS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Volume 39 Number 1
Read an excerpt from the Teachers & Writers tribute to Grace Paley and Gabriel Brownstein’s memories of being a student in a 1970s T&W classroom.