Invisible Cities: The Arts and Renewable Community

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.04.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Background
  5. Demographics
  6. Performance Poetry Groups Nationally
  7. Front Region and Back Region
  8. Monolingualism vs. Bi/Multilingualism
  9. Strategies
  10. Activities
  11. Appendix
  12. Bibliography

Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry

Sydney Hunt Coffin

Published September 2013

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Bibliography

Ana, Otto. Tongue-tied: the lives of multilingual children in public education. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín ; &, Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987-1986.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa poems. New York: New Directions Pub. Corp., 1989.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Immigrants in our own land & selected early poems. New York: New Directions, 1990.

Bozzini, George R., and Cynthia A. Leenerts. Literature without borders: international literature in English for student writers. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Calvino, Italo. Invisible cities. [1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Certeau, Michel de.. The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984

Conrad, C. A., and Frank Sherlock. The city real & imagined. Queens, N.Y.: Factory School, 2010.

Ellmann, Richard, and Robert Clair. The Norton anthology of modern poetry. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1988.

Goffman, Erving. The presentation of self in everyday life. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959.

Knowles, Scott Gabriel. Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the future of the city. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Perrine, Laurence, and Thomas R. Arp. Sound and sense: an introduction to poetry. 8 th

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Preminger, Alex. The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. New York:

MJF Book,1993.

Reed, Ishmael. From totems to hip-hop. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press :, 2003.

Simmons, Danny. Russell Simmons def poetry jam on Broadway — and more: the choice

collection. New York: Atria Books, 2005-2003.

Smith, Marc Kelly, and Joe Kraynak. Take the mic: the art of performance poetry, slam

and the spoken word. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2009.

Special Thanks to Team Black: the teachers, students, and all poets of PYPM.

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