MSLA 2017 Conference

As experienced teachers of poetry, we are eager to offer a workshop that will inspire and equip library teachers to teach poetry independently and/or in collaboration with classroom teachers. This workshop draws on and distills years of experience empowering students to read and write poetry with purpose and pleasure. It will include a framework for writing poetry (Georgia Heard’s “doors of poetry”), the four questions we use to help readers appreciate and understand poems, and a wealth of poetry activities, projects, and resources that can be used across the curriculum (and out into the world). Participants will have the opportunity to explore these tools and to envision how they might use or adapt them. They will leave with ideas, print and digital resources, and a new or renewed commitment to incorporate poetry into their teaching practice.