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Patricia Smith: Exploring Life Through the Poetry of Personas
Be inspired by poet Patricia Smith’s address at NWP’s Urban Sites Network conference.
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Why I Write: Jane Hirshfield Writes about Life's Profound Mystery
Read Jane’s Hirshfield’s statement about why she writes and watch her TEDed explanation of metaphor.
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Why I Write: To Awaken the Spirit in the Downtrodden
Poets and youth workers Al Mills and Nnamdi Chukwuocha answer the call to describe #WhyIWrite with a poem. The answer is inseparable from their community and the promise of the youth they work with.
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Billy Collins: A ‘Reader’s Poet’ Reads at NWP’s Annual Meeting
Enjoy Billy Collins’ keynote at the NWP Annual Conference.
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Poet Laureate Kay Ryan: Poet as Teacher, Teacher as Poet
Listen to two-time Poet Laureate Kay Ryan as she addresses Poets and Writers in San Francisco.
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Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar: Jack Powers, Poetry & A Career of Teaching Writing
Listen to poet and teacher Jack Powers on the occasion of his volume of poetry, Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar.
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Poet, Author, Educator: A Visit with Zev (Dan) Levinson
Zev (Dan) Levinson visits with us to discuss his poetry, outreach, and connection to education through the Redwood Writing Project and California Poets in the Schools.
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For many years, the National Writing Project has benefited from the performances and insights of poets, both through NWP’s Writers Council and though collaborations exploring teaching and poetry at NWP events or on NWP Radio. This collection links to recordings and audio episodes that capture some of those connections for all of us to enjoy.
NWP sites and leaders can help build this collection by contributing your own recordings of keynotes, workshops, and interviews with poets you work with. And you can always invite the writers you work with to join the Writers Council and ‘stand up for writing.’
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Why I Write: Jane Hirshfield Writes about Life's Profound Mystery
Read Jane’s Hirshfield’s statement about why she writes and watch her TEDed explanation of metaphor.
Read more
Why I Write: To Awaken the Spirit in the Downtrodden
Poets and youth workers Al Mills and Nnamdi Chukwuocha answer the call to describe #WhyIWrite with a poem. The answer is inseparable from their community and the promise of the youth they work with.
Read more
Billy Collins: A ‘Reader’s Poet’ Reads at NWP’s Annual Meeting
Enjoy Billy Collins’ keynote at the NWP Annual Conference.
Read more
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Participating in society means having voice and the ability and means to use it, and when schools offer an opportunity to help students find an audience for that voice, they enable an opportunity for genuine participatory democracy to take place. Over the years, I've been able to help a number of students find experiences to use their voice. I've come to firmly believe that the act of writing digitally holds the potential not only to showcase work beyond the classroom, but also to use work from outside the classroom to create writing. In a multi-page resource, I share both some of the work that has informed my thinking, as well as examples from my students that illustrate what I've come to see as moments when voice became reality.
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