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This text provides a step-by-step guide for teachers and poets on how to inspire young people to become practising poets. Part One focuses on Jordan's classroom and workshop methods for teaching poets. The text includes: course descriptions and syllabi; exercises for writing poetry; and teaching strategies for revising work and reading aloud. Part Two features interviews with contemporary poets who reflect on their poetic influences and the ways they adapted the canon to their own identities. Also included are bibliographies on African American, Asian American, Irish, gay and lesbian poetry, and poetry for and by children.

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This celebration of explorative poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries and writers' centers. <br>- Library Journal <br> June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint does for would-be writers what The Anarchist's Cookbook did for the neophyte bomb-makers. This step-by-step guide . . . explains how to teach, write, critique, perform, advertise, and publish poetry. The book essentially dusts poetry off and puts it in hip, new '90s threads--and shows what a tremendous difference a good teacher can make. <br>- Washington City Paper <br>. . . a handbook that serves the interests of poetry and community. . . . may this good and useful book find its way into the hands of anyone who cares about poetry and its future. <br>- Oregonian <br>. . . documents the history of this unique workshop and reading collective of the University of California at Berkeley. . . . this freewheeling guidebook looks at poetry as a populist, highly diverse activity. <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> Poetry does matter and does have relevence where it matters, in our homes and in our hearts. Jordan's manual is a step in the right direction towards restoring poetry to the altars of our personal lives. It matters more than ever, especially here and now. <br>-Joy Harjo <br>

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June Jordan is Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her many books include Haruko/Love Poems, Technical Difficulties, and IWas Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky.LaurenMuller is a graduate student in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught with June Jordan for four years.

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