Magazines

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sasha Waters Freyer on Chekhov for Children
• Jason Schneiderman on Teaching the Pantoum
• Tips for reaching reluctant elementary school writers by Jane LeCroy
• Daniel Godston on teaching students to write dramatic monologues
• Daniel Godston interviews Bob Hicok
• Reflections from T&W Fellows by Susan Karwoska

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Barbara Feinberg on Story Shop
• David Andrew Stoler on the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
• Bill Zavatsky on Dream Poems
• Jenny Williams and Urban Word

• 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

• 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

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.

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.

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

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

Erick Gordon and Kerry McKibbin on A Growing Sense of Audience
Christian McEwen on Poems from the Firth of Forth
Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein on Falling in Love with the Wind