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The dazzling new edition of this "tremendously valuable resource" (Kliatt) contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing. "The lessons are presented with clarity, common sense, and sophisticated artistic sensibilities."-Missoula Independent "Poetry Everywhere will ease any trepidation [about writing poetry]."-English Journal
Jack Collom
Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931, He studied Forestry at Colorado State University, spent four years in the Air Force, then received an MA in English from the University of Colorado. His books from T&W Collaborative are the results of 40 years of teaching poetry to children. He pioneered college-level ecology literature classes at Naropa University in 1989. He received two National Endowmen6 for the Arts Fellowships and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Award. He published 25 volumes of his own poetry, including Second Nature (Instance Press), which won the 2013 Colorado Book Award. His final volume is Partly: Selected Poems: 1954-2016 (Spuyten Duyvil). He died in 2017.
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Sheryl Noethe
Sheryl Noethe is the author of The Ghost Openings, which was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize.
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