Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose

Title: Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose
Author: Chad Sweeney
ISBN: 9781931404105
Publisher: City Lights Foundation Books
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Publisher Description:

The poems and short stories collected in this volume are the outcome of fifteen years of an amazingly successful experiment: asking accomplished writers to teach workshops in juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, inner-city schools, and schools for newly arrived immigrants. Follow these teacher-artists in the National Writers Corps on their journey into the halls and streets of America's diverse neighborhoods as they enrich the lives and creativity of their students--and find their own voices changed in the process. As one writer-teacher puts it: Writing in community gathers us around the proverbial campfire and reminds us why we do this: because hearing stories helps us make sense of the world, and because telling them helps us make sense of ourselves.