Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan

Chapter 1 Poetry and Accounting: “What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?”

Chapter 2 The Chemistry of Poetry: Transfer Across Disciplines

Chapter 3 Teaching Poetry Through Dance

Chapter 5 Teaching Poetry with Painting: “Why Do You Thus Devise Evil Against Her?”

Chapter 6 Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Poetry and Combat Trauma

Chapter 7 Pedagogies of Personhood: The Place of Lyric in Cultural Criminology

Chapter 8 Multimodal Encounter: Two Case Studies in the Recovery of the Black Signifier

Chapter 9 Push the Envelope: An Alternative to Testing and the Teaching of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts

Chapter 10 “Ten Fat Sausages”: Poetic Sense Units, Vocabulary Chunks, and Language Acquisition in Young Learners

Chapter 11 Helping High School Readers Interpret Challenging Texts Using Lenses from Literary Theory

Chapter 12 The “Effanineffable” Weakness of Poetry: The Duality of Bringing Poetry into the Teacher Training Classroom

Chapter 13 English Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Study of Teacher Perspectives, Purposes, and Practices

Chapter 14 Why Teach Poems About Animals? Animal Poetry Across Disciplines and the Life Span

Chapter 15 Teaching Unlikely Poets: Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances E. W. Harper

Chapter 16 Expanding the Turn: Using Poetry to Prepare Students for a Post-Truth World