Over the years, teachers, students, and I have assembled a running list of books and websites that encourage us to be writers with each other. These books and websites contain great writing experiments to try, essential information and guides for form, the keys to the language of writing we want to develop and share, and the names of fellow writers and teachers that we should be connected to. Click on any of them to explore. Chime in with other suggestions, and I’ll be sure to add them in.
Books on writing with kids
Poetry Everywhere by Jack Collom
Handbook of Poetic Forms – Ron Padgett
The Alphabet of the Trees – Christian McEwen
June Jordan’s Poetry for the People – Lauren Muller
Inside Out by Dan Kirby
The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet: 104 Unusual Ways to Write Poetry in the Classroom & the Community By Dave Morice
The List Poem: A Guide to Teaching & Writing Catalog Verse By Larry Fagin
Moving Windows: Evaluating the Poetry Children Write By Jack Collom
Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People By Kenneth Koch & Kate Farrell
True Notebooks : A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
Rose, Where Did You Get that Red? – Kenneth Koch
Sleeping on the Wing – Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell
What is Poetry – Daniel Kane
Third Mind – Tonya Foster and Kristin Prevallet
The Whole Word Catalogue – Rosellen Brown
The Oulipo Compendium – Harry Mathews, et. al.
Old Faithful – Christopher Edgar and Ron Padgett
Writers talking about how and why they write books
The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz
The Writers Notebook edited by Howard Junker
Great websites and organizations
Teachers and Writers – www.twc.org
826 Valencia – http://www.826valencia.org/
Pennsounds – http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
Charles Bernstein and Bernadette Mayer Writing Experiments – http://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html