{"product_id":"9781475827941","title":"The Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults","description":"A college student writes: “These words I write\/ open their mouths wide\/ screaming the most intimate secrets.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn inmate in a maximum-security men’s prison writes: “Within my writing, I am able to break down my prison walls and escape, leave the gangster façade behind.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Forms of Things Unknown: Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults draws from Shelley Savren’s forty years of teaching poetry writing to a diverse array of students, from teens with mental health issues to seniors to adults with developmental disabilities, and in a wide variety of settings, which include middle schools, high schools, colleges, juvenile halls, women’s centers, and a men’s prison. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter includes an original poem from Savren, heartfelt stories, and lesson plans that introduce poetic concepts through model poems by professionals, open-ended writing assignments, methods for sharing and critiquing, and student poems. Designed for use in a classroom or community setting, this book features forty-one lesson plans and nineteen more poetry-writing workshop ideas and provides guidance and inspiration for teaching poetry writing to teens and adults.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125251293424,"sku":"9781475827941","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475827941_p0.jpg?v=1769893774","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475827941","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}