The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

Notes

1. Robert Bly, "Things to Think," Morning Poems (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), 12.
2. David Caplan, "Whitman in Liege," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 81. No. 2 (Spring 2005): 196.

   3. Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Leaves of Grass and Other Writings, ed. Michael Moon (New York: Norton, 2002), 137.

3. Whitman, "Poets to Come," 14.
4. Whitman, "Preface 1855," 619.
5. Whitman, "Preface 1855," 624-5.
6. Whitman, "Preface 1855," 622.
7. Richard Tayson. "The Casualties of Walt Whitman." The Virginia Quarterly Review,Vol. 81. No. 2 (Spring 2005): 79.
8. Galway Kinnell, "Kissing the Toad," Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980), 25.
9. Lucille Clifton, "Quilting," Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (Rochester: BOA Editions Ltd, 1991), 3.
10. William Logan "Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman Brags," The Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2005. Vol. 81. No. 2): 27.
11. Logan, 21.
12. Logan, 23.
13. Judith Rowe Michaels, Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students (Urbana: NCTE, 1999): 19-22.
14. Whitman, "There Was a Child Went Forth," 307.
15. Whitman, "Preface," 630.
16. Whitman, "Song of Myself" [6], 30.
17. Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider," 377.
18. Robert Frost, "Design," The Poetry of Robert Frost (New York: Henry Holt, 1969), 302.
19. Whitman, "Song at Sunset," 416.
20. See Wallace Stevens to Joseph Bennet, 1955, "Wallace Stevens: Excerpts from Letters," Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to
21. thology of Modern American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. 1999. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/> (20 July 2005)
22. Nancie Atwell, Lessons that Change Writers (Portsmouth, Heinemann, 2002): 156.
23. Whitman, "Preface," 617.
24. Whitman, "I Hear American Singing," 12-13.
25. David Graham, "The Varied Carol," Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman. ed. Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro. (Iowa City: Iowa UP, 2003): 81-2.

    26. Whitman, "Preface," 627
    27. Allen Ginsberg, The Portable Beat Reader, ed. Ann Charters (New York: Penguin, 1992): 61.

26. Laura Diamond, "Teacher Faces Action Over Poem 'Howl'," Florida Times-Union, September 12, 2000.
27. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, What is Poetry?:A Non-Lecture. Crossroads Online. Fall 1997. Poetry Society of America. http://www.poetrysociety.org/ journal/articles/whatispoetry.html> (20 July 2005).