Resources
Bibliography
Armstrong, Billy Joe. “American Idiot,” 2004.
This song was written as a response to George W. Bush. Historical context will be needed before students read. This poem also has profanity and presents controversial opinions.
Christensen, Linda et al. Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice. (Milwaukee: ethinking Schools, 2015).
Cushman, Stephen. "Whitman and Patriotism." Virginia Quarterly Review, 81.2 (Spring 2005): 163-185. Accessed on June 21, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16489317&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Cushway, Phil, and Michael Warr, ed., Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Treyvon Martin, (New York: Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2016).
Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV, distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, 1989.
Dylan, Bob. “The Times They Are a-Changin,’” 1964.
---. “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” 1964.
Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. (Oxford University Press, 2006). Accessed on June 21, 2017. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181005.001.0001
Ginsberg, Allen and Gordon Ball. Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness, (New York: McGraw Hill, 1974).
Ginsberg, Allen. “America,”1958.
A powerful poem, but this does contain profanity and adult topics. Historical and biographical context is needed to teach this poem.
Hernsen, Terry. Poetry of Place: Helping Students Write Their Worlds. (National Council of Teachers, 2009).
Many engaging ideas and activities for getting students to write meaningful poetry.
Jackson, Mark Allan. “Is This Song Your Song Anymore?: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." American Music, 20.3 (Autumn 2002): 249-276. Accessed July 14, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1350126.
Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love. (New York: Hyperion, 2003).
Klier, Ron. “Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the Anxiety of Influence.” Midwest Quarterly, 40. 3 (Spring 1999): 334-350. Accessed June 2, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=1876707&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
McVee, Mary B., et al. “Using Digital Media to Interpret Poetry: Spiderman Meets Walt Whitman.” Research in the Teaching of English, 43.2 (2008): 112–143. Accessed June 15, 2017. www.jstor.org/stable/40171762.
Outka, Paul H. "Whitman and Race ("He's Queer, He's Unclear, Get Used to It")." Journal of American Studies 36, no. 2 (2002): 293-318. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557120.
This is an interesting article if you really want to discuss Whitman’s intentions with students. It tries to rationalize the separation of the racist journalist Whitman from the big-hearted, all accepting poet Walt.
Piercy, Marge. “Barbie Doll,” 1971.
Popoff, Georgia A. and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community. (New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2010).
This book has a unique, engaging, and urban way of approaching poetry in the classroom. Many activities that can be used for reluctant, unengaged students.
Ravitch, Diane, ed., The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation (New York, Perennial: 2010).
Rich, Adrienne. What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. (New York, W.W.Norton and Company: 1993).
Ricks, Christopher. Dylan’s Vision of Sin (New York: Harper Collins, 2005).
Sorisio, Carolyn. Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002). Project MUSE, Accessed on July 1, 2017. http://muse.jhu.edu/book/11520.
Vogel, Andrew. “The Dream and the Dystopia: Bathetic Humor, the Beats, and Walt Whitman's Idealism” American Studies, 58.3 (2013): 389-407. Accessed June 25, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485897.
Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1982).
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