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"Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children . . . . Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty need to read this powerful collection. So, for that matter, do we all."
–Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities

"When reasoned argument fails, poetry helps us make sense of life. A few well-chosen images, the spinning together of words creates a way of seeing where we came from and lights up possibilities for where we might be going . . . . Dip in, read, and ponder; share with others. It’s inspiration in the very best sense."
–Deborah Meier, co-principal of The Mission Hill School, Boston and founder of a network of schools in East Harlem, New York

"In the Confucian tradition it is said that the mark of a golden era is that children are the most important members of the society and teaching is the most revered profession. Our jour ney to that ideal may be a long one, but it is books like this that will sustain us–for who are we all at our best save teachers, and who matters more to us than the children?"
–Peter M. Senge, founding chair, SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) and author of The Fifth Discipline

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Intrator (education & child study, Smith) and Scribner, an editor and program evaluator, have organized this book simply but powerfully to capture the relationship between educators and the poems that have become their inspiration. Text on the left-hand side of a spread explains where and why an educator teaches, while the facing page offers a poem that has sustained him or her through long droughts in the classroom. The diversity of poems is impressive; the poets represented in this book range from British, white, classic, and dead to recent award winners from all over the globe. The educators also come from diverse backgrounds, and they have multifarious reasons for choosing their profession. Although many traditional teachers from public school settings are represented, the educators also come from parochial schools, urban charter schools, Teach for America, and colleges and include artists in residence, principals, and curriculum directors. It is the pluralistic, inclusive approach this book takes that makes it such a worthy read. Highly recommended for all school and college libraries.-Maria Kochis, California State Univ., Sacramento, CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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ISBN-13: 9780787969707
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/3/2003
Edition number: 1
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 77,939
Product dimensions: 7.18 (w) x 7.38 (h) x 0.93 (d)

Meet the Author

Sam M. Intrator is assistant professor of education and child study at Smith College. He is a former high school teacher and administrator and the son of two public school teachers. He is the editor of Stories of the Courage to Teach and author of Tuned In and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom.
Megan Scribner is a freelance writer, editor, and program evaluator who has conducted research on what sustains and empowers the lives of teachers. She is the mother of two children and PTA president of their elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland.

	Gratitudes	xi
	A Note to Our Readers	xiii
	Introduction	xvii
	Hearing the Call	1
	Bob O'Meally's "Make Music with Your Life"	2
	Marge Piercy's "To be of use"	4
	Pablo Neruda's "The Poet's Obligation"	6
	Gabriele D'Annunzio's "I pastori"	8
	Emily Dickinson's "The Chariot"	10
	Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"	12
	William Stafford's "The Way It Is"	14
	Walt Whitman's Preface to "Leaves of Grass" [Excerpt]	16
	Langston Hughes's "Dream Deferred"	18
	Marian Wright Edelman's "I Care and I'm Willing to Serve"	20
	Cherishing the Work	23
	Billy Collins's "First Reader"	24
	Gary Snyder's "Axe Handles"	26
	David Whyte's "Working Together"	28
	Marcie Hans's "Fueled"	30
	William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow"	32
	George Venn's "Poem Against the First Grade"	34
	Jeff Moss's "On the Other Side of the Door"	36
	Lydia Cortes's "I Remember"	38
	Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"	40
	Gary Blankenburg's "The Mouse"	42
	Lewis Buzbee's "Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock"	44
	On the Edge	47
	John Milton's "Paradise Lost, Book VIII"	48
	Stephen Sondheim's "Children Will Listen"	50
	Al Zolynas's "Love in the Classroom"	52
	Billy Collins's "On Turning Ten"	54
	Li-Young Lee's "The Gift"	56
	Mary Oliver's "The Journey"	58
	Yehuda Amichai's "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children"	60
	Jellaludin Rumi's "The Lame Goat"	62
	Linda McCarriston's "Hotel Nights with My Mother"	64
	Lucile Burt's "Melissa Quits School"	66
	Holding On	69
	Denise Levertov's "Witness"	70
	Octavio Paz's "After"	72
	Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"	74
	William Butler Yeats's "Everything That Man Esteems"	76
	May Sarton's "Now I Become Myself"	78
	Annie Dillard's "Teaching a Stone to Talk" [Excerpt]	80
	David Whyte's "Sweet Darkness"	82
	Rubin Alves's "Tomorrow's Child"	84
	Donald Hall's "Names of Horses"	86
	Judy Brown's "Fire"	88
	Margaret Walker's "For My People"	90
	In the Moment	93
	Elizabeth Carlson's "Imperfection"	94
	David Wagoner's "Lost"	96
	Wendell Berry's "A Purification"	98
	Marge Piercy's "The seven of pentacles"	100
	Pablo Neruda's "Keeping Quiet"	102
	Gary Snyder's "What Have I Learned"	104
	Wislawa Szymborska's "There But for the Grace"	106
	Derek Walcott's "Love After Love"	108
	William Stafford's "You Reading This, Be Ready"	110
	Edgar A. Guest's "Don't Quit"	112
	Making Contact	115
	Charles Olson's "These Days"	116
	Donna Kate Rushin's "The Bridge Poem"	118
	Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" [Excerpt]	120
	Virginia Satir's "Making Contact"	122
	John Moffitt's "To Look at Any Thing"	124
	Jellaludin Rumi's "Two Kinds of Intelligence"	126
	Adrienne Rich's "Dialogue"	128
	Galway Kinnell's "Saint Francis and the Sow"	130
	Maxine Kumin's "Junior Life Saving"	132
	Gary Soto's "Saturday at the Canal"	134
	Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"	136
	The Fire of Teaching	139
	Wislawa Szymborska's "A Contribution to Satistics"	140
	E.E. Cummings's "You Shall Above All Things"	142
	Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day"	144
	Ranier Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"	146
	Robert Graves's "Warning to Children"	148
	Wallace Stevens's "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain"	150
	Langston Hughes's "My People"	152
	@nikki giovanni's "the drum"	154
	@nila northSun's "moving camp too far"	156
	Czeslaw Milosz's "Gift"	158
	T. S. Eliot's "East Coker"	160
	Naomi Shihab Nye's "Shoulders"	162
	Bettye T. Spinner's "Harvest Home"	164
	Daring to Lead	167
	Rabindranath Tagore's "Where the Mind Is Without Fear"	168
	Barbara Kingsolver's "Beating Time"	170
	Thomas Jefferson's "Passage from a Letter to William Charles Jarvis"	172
	Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"	174
	Rainer Maria Rilke's "I Believe in All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken"	176
	Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son"	178
	@nikki giovanni's "ego-tripping"	180
	Anne Sexton's "Courage"	182
	William Stafford's "Silver Star"	184
	Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" [Excerpt]	186
	Vaclav Havel's "It Is I Who Must Begin"	188
	Marge Piercy's "The low road"	190
	Tending the Fire: The Utility of Poetry in a Teacher's Life	193
	About the Courage to Teach Program	213
	The Contributors	215
	The Editors	225

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Posted October 4, 2004

Very inspirational

I love this book and use it as a source of inspiration for myself and fellow teachers.

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