Where Stars Meet People

Leilya A. Pitre

doi:10.5771/9781475868784

Summary

This book is unique. It offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using poetry; however, it doesn’t simply suggest poems grouped by common themes. Each poetry section presents a poetic conversation among the poets on each of the given eight themes. One of the poets initiates each section with an original poem, and the next poet responds to the first, initial, poem. The other poets join the conversation responding to the first, second, or any of the poems previously included in this section. The poems feature the themes of poetry, places, nature, beauty, and harmony, love, loyalty and betrayal, home and family, loss and grief, and dreams and hopes for the future. The three final chapters aim to explain how to use these poems, and poetry in general, in the classrooms and beyond its walls; to invite novice and experienced poets to create various forms of poetry; and to share views on poetry, its teaching, reading, and writing. The various poetry forms are explored in this volume to create poems that help deliver the author’s message. All poems are written exclusively for a diverse readership of the book.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6876-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6878-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 128
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. 1. Where the Stars Meet People No access
  2. Inhale Life, Exhale a Poem No access
  3. (A Golden Shovel) No access
  4. on second thought No access
  5. and Where the Stars Offer Healing No access
  6. In Sickness and in Prose No access
  7. That Which I Cannot No access
  8. For Esteban No access
  9. Poor-etry No access
  10. Poetry No access
  11. A Found Poem No access
  12. Write with Us: A Golden Shovel Poem by René Saldaña Jr. No access
  13. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  14. A Twist No access
2. 1. Pew Number One No access
  2. The Pulpit: An American Sentence Triptych Poem No access
  3. Elements of Worship No access
  4. A Walk to My Haven No access
  5. Ode to My Welcome Mat No access
  6. Lookout No access
  7. Marathon for a Union No access
  8. Worn Sneakers No access
  9. A Found Poem No access
  10. Write with Us: A Triptych Poem by Johanna Keene No access
  11. It’s Your Turn Now No access
3. 1. The Song of Boys Stealing Cantaloupe from the Farmer No access
  2. Singing the Childhood Away No access
  3. The Evening Cantaloupe at the Farmer’s House No access
  4. seeing anew No access
  5. 1992 No access
  6. The Grasp of Youth No access
  7. Blossoming (Haikus) No access
  8. Boys Running Through the Patches No access
  9. A Found Poem No access
  10. Write with Us: A Spenserian Stanza by Leilya Pitre No access
  11. It’s Your Turn Now No access
4. 1. Heartdrumming No access
  2. Beating in Tune No access
  3. Over the Fence No access
  4. Love’s Equation No access
  5. Layover No access
  6. Love at First Touch No access
  7. blended family No access
  8. Lost and Found No access
  9. A Found Poem No access
  10. Write with Us: A Concrete Poem by R. Joseph Rodríguez No access
  11. It’s Your Turn Now No access
5. 1. lex talionis1 No access
  2. Unrequited Hue No access
  3. Betrayal No access
  4. Synonyms No access
  5. Trouble, In and Out: A Blitz Poem No access
  6. Untitled No access
  7. Opposites Attract No access
  8. I Finally Found My Voice No access
  9. A Found Poem No access
  10. Write with Us: A Villanelle Poem by Sam Tarpley No access
  11. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  12. Notes No access
6. 1. riding No access
  2. Evening at Home No access
  3. That Ain’t It No access
  4. Peculiarity, or Why People Stare No access
  5. Christmas No access
  6. Kanaha No access
  7. We Are Homebound No access
  8. A Found Poem No access
  9. Write with Us: A Traditional Couplet by Leilya Pitre No access
  10. It’s Your Turn Now No access
7. 1. Mama No access
  2. an awakening No access
  3. for mam and papi No access
  4. Haikus of Grieving No access
  5. It’s Five Syllables No access
  6. Hardwater No access
  7. oh jack dawson’s gone! No access
  8. Acceptance No access
  9. Processing No access
  10. intaglio No access
  11. Heaves No access
  12. A Found Poem No access
  13. Write with Us: A Spoken Word Poem by Kim Noble Calhoun No access
  14. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  15. Note No access
8. 1. From This Place No access
  2. Waving This Time No access
  3. From Whole-cloth No access
  4. Home is the Beginning No access
  5. When Louisiana Cries No access
  6. Tender No access
  7. Dreams Bring Us Home No access
  8. A Found Poem No access
  9. Write with Us: A Found Poem by Maggie Tregre No access
  10. It’s Your Turn Now No access
1. 1. Poetry and Literary Themes No access
  2. Initiating Thematic Analysis of Family, Its Importance, and Values No access
  3. Poetry and Other Academic Skills No access
  4. Poetry and Grammar No access
2. 1. ONE WORD POEM No access
  2. BY JOHANNA KEENE and René Saldaña, Jr. No access
  3. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  4. A Pantoum Poem by Johanna Keene No access
  5. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  6. A Visual Art Poem by Johanna Keene No access
  7. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  8. 1. Parvana’s Hope No access
  9. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  10. A Walk Poem by Leilya Pitre No access
  11. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  12. Musical Devices in a Poem by R. Joseph Rodríguez No access
  13. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  14. Hip-Hop and Popular Music in a Poem by R. Joseph Rodríguez No access
  15. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  16. 1. Rainy Day Outside Five Points MARTA No access
  17. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  18. An American Sentence by René Saldaña Jr. No access
  19. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  20. A Twist No access
  21. The Bruchac Haiku by René Saldaña Jr. No access
  22. It’s Your Turn Now No access
  23. Notes No access
3. Chapter 11: Poetic Conversations No access
Bibliography No access Pages 123 - 124
About the Editor No access Pages 125 - 126
About the Contributors No access Pages 127 - 128