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The Forest of Wild Hands
"I admire the exuberant energy and feverish care in this brave book of poems, in the work of a mature woman coming to terms with her life, finding the words, the exact names, for a world that is almost unbearably precious, evanescent, wild."-- Edward Hirsch In these moving poems, Judy Michaels illuminates an intense period of five years in her life: against a backdrop that celebrates her young students, an enduring marriage, and the power of music and mountains, she writes about the sudden loss of her mother to cancer, her father's ensuing depression and alcoholism, and her own experience with ovarian cancer. Michaels's witty, passionate style and wide range of subject matter set her collect...
Risking Intensity
Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, s, t.
Dancing with Words
This book argues for a deeper, richer view of vocabulary than the standard images conjured up by that word--worksheets, weekly quizzes, and anxieties about standardized test scores. The book invites teachers and students to experience "the music of words," words in isolation and in juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life experiences to language, showing in turn how language can help them know that experience more fully. It demonstrates how to build a community in the classroom where curiosity about language is the norm. It states that, within this community, students and teacher not only take time to test out shades of connotation and learn about how words and syntax create vo...
Catching Tigers in Red Weather
All good writing is creative. But it's easy to forget this when writing is used mainly as a tool to assess reading comprehension and writers are judged by how well they conform to prescribed standards of "proficiency." Teacher-poet Judith Rowe Michaels describes how she refocused her ninth-grade English course to help students explore writing--their own and the assigned literature--as an art form with the same potential for creativity as, say, Web design, filmmaking, or music. Expanding their writing repertoire, students discover that to be memorable, a poem, essay, or story requires imagination, a sharp eye, a tuned ear, an engaged but open mind, and an interest in language, structure, and ...
When History Is Personal
When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz's life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both inward and outward so that these individualized tales tell a larger story--of assimilation, the women's movement, racism, anti-Semitism, end-of-life issues, ethics in writing, digital and corporate challenges, and courtroom justice. A shrewd and discerning storyteller, Schwartz captures history from her vantage as a child of German-Jewish immigrants, a wife of over fifty years, a breast cancer survivor, a working mother, a traveler, a tennis player, a daughter, and a widow. In adding her personal story to the larger narrative of history, culture, and politics, Schwartz invites readers to consider her personal take alongside "official" histories and offers readers fresh assessments of our collective past.
Cool Women Volume Six
Cool Women Volume Six is a poetry anthology, containing new poems by widely published poets (Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Bonham Lies, Judy Rowe Michaels, Sharon Olson, Penelope Scambly Schott, Maxine Susman, and Gretna Wilkinson). Cool Women have been critiquing and performing their poems for over 20 years, and this, their sixth anthology of thematically grouped poems contains Muse-ings, Knowing/Not Knowing, Critters like Us, On Further Thought and Beside Ourselves. Poems range in subject matter (from the speed of light to extinction, from the sacred to the profane, from cutting clouds to fiddler crabs) and emotive power (from celebration and joy to wonder and grief).
The Body in the Clouds
Originally published: Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Cool Women Volume Seven
Cool Women Poets is a central New Jersey based, eleven-member poetry critique and performance group, who have meeting for 25 years and who do 40-45 minute poetry readings. The members are widely published individually and as a group (7 anthologies and 2 CDs of their work). Their performances are theme-based improvisations in which they begin with a theme. This is the seventh volume of these dynamic poets who have read from New Jersey to Portland, Oregon. Their energy--still wild and dynamic as they move into the 70's and 80's--is suggested in these lines from poet Eloise Bruce:Come on, let's give those neutrinos a chargeand have at it after we dance the body electricand just before we plunge into the unknown,moan with the muon, gyrate with gravity's strings and loops, finally permeate vast thicknesses without interactionand wallow in the leftovers of creation.Even if the libretto is bogus, it's the best sex we ever had.
Poets on Paintings
Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.
Feminist Periodicals
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