Speaking of Poets 2: More Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 379 675 CS 214 746 AUTHOR Copeland, Jeffrey S.; Copeland, Vicky L. TITLE Speaking of Poets 2: More Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-4620-1 PUB DATE 94 NOTE 219p.; For volume 1, see ED 359 540. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 46201-3050: $11.95 members, $15.95 nonmembers). PUB TYPE Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) Books (010) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adolescents; Audience Awareness; Children; *Childrens Literature; *Creative Writing; Elementary Secondary Education; Interviews; *Personal Narratives; *Poetry; *Poets; Reader Text Relationship; *Writing Processes IDENTIFIERS Author Reader Relationship; Author Text Relationship; Poetic Forms; Writing Contexts; *Writing for Children ABSTRACT Spotlighting a variety of venerable poets, ss well as some rising stars, this book is the secondseries of conversations about the lives and works of poets who write mainly for children and young people. The book presents informal interviewswith the writers about their childhoods, the influences upon their work, theirwriting processes, how they would like to see their workintroduced to youngsters, and what suggestions they have for young poetry writers. The 20 poets interviewed in the book are: J. Patrick Lewis, Marilyn Singer, Cynthia Rylant, Paul Fleischman, Bro'd Bagert, Lillian Morrison, Ashlay Bryan, Jane Yolen, Luis J. Rodriguez, Deborah Chandra, Paul Janeczko, Michael Spooner, Constance Levy, Nikki Gi,-vanni, Patricia Huboell, Victor Martinez, Lucille Clifton, Maxine Kumin, Judith Thurman, and Nancy White Carlstrom.
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