Pedagogy Forum, Week 4

I found that by discussing Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” perhaps how a poem is read could and should be an important element to teaching creative writing. The implication of students reading poetry out loud as well as listening to other poets read their own poetry becomes an art in and of itself, which adds to the process of understanding and indicating the several processes one takes to write and teach poetry. Having an eye and ear for the language of each poem, perhaps, heightens the student’s ability to apply certain phonemic strategies to their own writing as well.