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Making poetry their own: The evolution of poetry education

  • Written by Laura Apol, Poet, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
imageA student performs at the 2013 Louder Than a Bomb slam poetry competition in Boston, Massachusetts.John Tammaro / flickr, CC BY-ND

The American poet William Stafford was often asked by friends, readers, students and colleagues: When did you become a poet? The response he regularly offered was: “The question isn’t when I became a poet;...

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