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Book Review: Today You Are My Favorite Poet, by Geof Hewitt
By: Patricia McGonegal
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2
Date: Spring 1999
Summary: McGonegal interviews Hewitt, focusing on strategies like the "Chart of Infinite Variables" and "Idea Wheel" that nudge students toward writing poetry.
Excerpt
Reading and writing poetry enlivens curriculum. Any curriculum! For instance, do we attend to the arts of a given culture or historical period in our social studies/history classes? Do we give consideration to the relationship of the arts to science and mathematics? Any teacher who brings poetry into his/her curriculum is wisely casting a fatter net than ever for the interest of students who might otherwise reject the content of the course.
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