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Join T&W and become a member of an international community of teachers, writers, and supporters of literary arts education!
Teachers & Writers Collaborative was founded in 1967 by a group of educators and writers who believed professional writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing and literature. T&W promotes collaboration between teachers and writers by providing creative writing programs in schools, publishing literary arts education resources, and hosting an online discussion group for teachers and writers. Since our founding, T&W has served as a model for writers-in-the-schools programs around the world.
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By becoming a T&W member, you will help to educate the imagination of young writers across New York City, as well as ensuring that that we can continue to provide high-quality resources like Teachers & Writers Magazine to help writers and teachers across the country. Please become a member today.
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Teachers & Writers Magazine is a quarterly periodical with ideas for writers who work in schools and teachers of creative writing. It covers contemporary issues and innovations in creative writing education, and engages writers, educators, and students in a conversation on the nature of creativity and the imagination. Recent issues have included interviews with Jayne Cortez, Kevin Young, Dennis Lehane, Kimiko Hahn, Billy Collins, and Quiara Alegría Hudes; articles about teaching the ode and the sestina, about inspiring students with the work of poets Kenneth Koch and Naomi Shihab Nye; and about welcoming music and art into the writing classroom.
Occasional special issues feature in-depth explorations of subjects of particular interest to our readers. Our most recent special issues focused on translation, on collaboration, and on using comics in the classroom to teach creative writing.
Teachers & Writers Magazine is published quarterly and is available by subscription or with a T&W membership.
Winter / 2012-2013 – Volume 44, Number 2
- 2012 Bechtel Prize-Winning Essay Now Let’s Stare at the Purple by Barbara Flug Colin
- Revisiting Joe Brainard’s I Remember by Ron Padgett, Susan Karwoska, Matthew Burgess, David Andrew Stoler, and Rick Moody
- Teaching Voice in the Personal Essay by Olivia Birdsall
- Teaching Artist Snapshot of Adeena Reitberger by Rebecca Markovits
- Creating Sonic Translations in the Classroom by Peter Markus
- T&W Blackboard
Fall / 2012 – Volume 44, Number 1
- Excerpts from A Poem as Big as New York City
- Creating a Poem to Celebrate Your Community by Amy Swauger<
- Two Exercises for Community Poem Projects by Sarah Dohrmann
- An Interview with Verlyn Klinkenborg by Sarah Dohrmann
- Finding Stories with Splashes of Paint by Harriet Riley
- Teaching Artist Snapshots of Gary Earl Ross and Celia White
- End Note: A Kid Named A. by Michael Copperman
- T&W Blackboard
Summer / 2012 – Volume 43, Number 4
- Not Just Somebody Standing in Line: The Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writing Workshop by Jane Moon
- Take it Away! Inspired Summer Writing Ideas from writers in the schools across the country
- Teaching Artist Snapshot: Laura Moulton, Portland, Oregon
- Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum: Reflections on Combining Creative Writing with Core Subjects
- Creative Writing and Science by Sarah Porter
- Creative Writing and Social Studies by David Andrew Stoler
- Writing What You Really Mean: Three Activities to Help Student Writers Develop Authentic Voices by Lucas DuClos
- T&W Blackboard
Spring / 2012 – Volume 43, Number 3
- Worlds to Explore: An Interview with Rita Dove by Christian McEwen
- Three Classroom Writing Exercises for National Poetry Month
by Jane LeCroy, Bushra Rehman, and Sarah Dohrmann - Teaching Artist Snapshot: Jena Kirkpatrick by Cecily Sailer
- A Net for Words: Using the Lune to Jump-Start the Essay
by Melanie Maria Goodreaux - Bringing Poems off the Page and into the Body by Norman Minnick
- T&W Blackboard
- Plus, audio recordings of Rita Dove reading from her new poetry collection
Winter / 2012 – Volume 43, Number 2
- 2011 Winner of the Bechtel Prize The Possum by Janet L. Bland
- Poetry Circus: Teaching the Poems of Kenneth Koch by Joanna Fuhrman
- Teaching Artist Snapshot: Rebecca Wadlinger by Hannah Gamble
- The Backward Prompt: Using Great First Lines from Literature by Kim Stafford
- Setting the Table: A Writing Workshop Taps Into Life in a Homeless Shelter by Amanda Gardner
- A Poetry Moment: Robert Hass with Young Students at Poets House by Robert Hirschfield
- T&W Blackboard
Fall / 2011 – Volume 43, Number 1
- Matthew Burgess on E.E. Cummings in the classroom
- Teaching artist snapshot of Peter Markus by Norene Cashen Smith
- Caron Levis finds inspiration in the imagination
- Teaching the abecdarian and the anagram by Jason Schneiderman
- Wilson Diehl on getting creative with the truth
- Harriet Riley explores writing opportunities in outdoor educaton
Summer / 2011 – Volume 42, Number 4
- Andrew Cotto’s interview with Dennis Lehane
- Bard College’s Writing & Thinking workshopby Jess deCourcy Hinds
- Teaching Artist snapshot of John Isaacson
- Karen Benke on teaching students to write without fear
- Teaching writing and reading through Me Books by Camille Goodison
- Barbara Feinberg on not editing children
Spring / 2011 – Volume 42, Number 3
- Rachel DeWoskin on exchanging words and worlds in a sixth-grade classroom
- Marty Rutherford, Elizabeth Lacy, Jennifer Romanoff, and Sari Wilson on Poetry Inside Out
- Merna Hecht on a poetry project with immigrant and refugee students
- Mark Statman on Lorca in the freshman year
- Philli Lopate on mistranslation
Winter / 2011 – Volume 42, Number 2
- 2010 Bechtel Prize winner Garth Greenwell on Writing the City in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Beth Copeland on lunch bag sestinas
- Georgia A. Popoff and Quaraysh Lansana on demystifying the poem
- Nichole Callihan on teaching poetry to autistic children
- David McLochlin on Melanie Maria Goodreaux: Teaching Artist Snapshot
Spring / 2010 – Volume 41, Number 3
- Jason Schneiderman on Teaching the Ghazal
- Carla Ching on Philadelphia Young Playwrights and an interview with Quiara Algria Hudes
- Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Luke Albrecht on The Crown Experiments
- Sarah Dohrmann on Teaching and Writing
Winter / 2010 – Volume 41, Number 2
- 2009 Bechtel Prize winner Emily Raboteau on teaching jazz poetry
- Joanna Fuhrman on inspiring high school students with the poetry of Jayne Cortez plus an interview with the poet
- Marion Winik on defining creative nonfiction
- Nancy Barnhart on using poetry comics with young students
- Harriet Riley on teaching students to describe emotions
Fall / 2009 – Volume 41, Number 1
- Susan Karwoska interviews Kevin Young
- Mary Ann Hecht on teaching poetry writing using the work of Naomi Shahib Nye
- Rachel Dewoskin on life in a second language
- David Andrew Stoler and Angel Contrera on essay writing at Frederick Douglass Academy
- Michael Copperman on teaching to student interest
Summer / 2009 – Volume 40, Number 4
- Special issue on Collaboration!
- Yusef Kumunyakaa on The Spirit of Yes
- Six artists interviewed about Collaboration in Dancing in your Chair
- Matthew Burgess Plays Well with Others
- Susan Karwoska disusses a collaborative exercise with Poet Brian Turner
- Nick Flynn and Josh Newufeld on Of Two Minds; Poetry and Comics
- and a classic excerpt from T&W’s Handbook of Poetic Forms
Spring / 2009 – Volume 40, Number 3
- Barbara Feinberg on Story Shop
- David Andrew Stoler on the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
- Bill Zavatsky on Dream Poems
- Jenny Williams and Urban Word
Winter / 2009 – Volume 40, Number 2
- Bechtel winner Michael Bazzett on making students at home in the language of literature
- Phillip Lopate interview
- Excerpt from Phillip Lopate’s newly reissued book Being With Children
- Karen L. Lewis on picturing poetry
- Bertha Rogers on teaching the sonnet
Fall / 2008 – Volume 40, Number 1
- Matthew Burgess on teaching poems on poetry
- Summer Brenner on the Where I’m From Project
- Linda Winston on a New Orleans poetry workshop
- Andrew Wingfield and Jan D. WELLIK on writing about the natural world
- Nicole Hefner Callihan on teaching poetry to children with disabilities
- Barbara Flug Colin on teaching as self-discovery
Spring / 2008 – Volume 39, Number 3
Ron Padgett’s teaching diary excerpts, 1969-1970 and Esther Rosenfeld on a classroom teacher’s view of T&W.
This issue also includes articles about Teachers & Writers’ 40th Anniversary by Margot Fortunato Galt, Herbert Kohl and Phillip Lopate, Jane LeCroy, Diana Rivera-Bryant, Sam Swope, Meredith Sue Willis, Katherine Koch, Jenny Robinson Hartley, and Mark Statman. Also includes a memorial to Irwin Gonshak.
Winter / 2008 – Volume 39, Number 2
Amnda Leigh Lichtenstein’s article on teaching invented poetic forms.
This issue also includes Bechtel winner Anna Sopko on writing through trauma with a young student, Bechtel finalist Sarah J. Gardner on meaning and imagination, Bechtel finalist Cheryl Pallant on making a gift of poetry and David Keplinger on translation.
Fall / 2007 – Volume 39, Number 1
Tributes to Grace Paley by Jan Heller Levi, Susan Karwoska, Galway Kinnell, Herbert Kohl, Nancy Larson Shapiro, Gary Lenhart, Christian McEwen, Mark Statman, and Vera B. Williams
Gabriel Brownstein looking back on a 1970s classroom
Jess DeCourcy Hinds on writing about food
Daniel Godston on 3-D poetry projects
Barbara Flug Colin’s teaching diary
Summer / 2007 – Volume 38, Number 4
Susan Karwoska interviews Billy Collins
Leslie Schwartz on teaching writing in a gang intervention program
Scott MacFarlane on collaborative writing
Karen Ulrich on writing memoirs
Bertha Rogers on being a teaching artist
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