Bonus: Inspiring K-12 Students with Voca
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Teaching artists from the Poetry Center\\u2019s Writing the Community program offer ideas for using recordings from Voca to inspire K-12 students. Kristen E. Nelson discusses the benefits of using a simple, concrete parameter\\u2014such as writing about the moon\\u2014for younger students. She shares moon poems by Al Young (\\u201cExcerpt from \\u2018About the 22 Moon Poems\\u2019\\u201d and \\u201cMoon of No Return\\u201d) and a student at Miles Exploratory Learning Center. Lisa M. O\\u2019Neill discusses the power of using lists and other forms of everyday writing familiar to students as an entry point to help students feel comfortable with writing poetry. She introduces a list poem by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (\\u201cFor Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet\\u201d) and shares two list poems written by students at the CAPE School that came out of an assignment inspired by Wang Ping\\u2019s poem \\u201cThings We Carry on the Sea.\\u201d
Listen to the full recordings of Young and Harjo reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Al Young (1997)
Joy Harjo (2016)
Learn more about the Poetry Center\\u2019s education programs by visiting the Poetry Center online and clicking on the \\u201cEducation\\u201d tab.