I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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