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Peer reviewedTrue, Michael – English Journal, 1980
Emphasizes attention to the sound of a poem in both teaching and writing poetry. Provides selected poems written by students and teachers. (JT)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Language Rhythm
Orr, Gregory, Ed.; Voigt, Ellen Bryant, Ed. – 1996
This anthology collects essays by current and former lecturers at the Warren Wilson College (North Carolina) MFA Program for Writers. Some of the poets whose essays are included are: Joan Aleshire, Marianne Boruch, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Reginald Gibbons, Louise Gluck, Allen Grossman, Robert Hass, Tony Hoagland, Heather McHugh, Gregory Orr,…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Creative Writing, Figurative Language, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVelie, Alan R. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1979
This article examines Surrealism, its definition, and history through example. Special emphasis is on James Welch, a Blackfeet poet from Montana with a comic way of viewing the world in a surrealistic fashion. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Creativity, Imagery
Download full textHarjo, Joy; And Others – Wicazo Sa Review, 1985
Four Native American poets in easy narrative style tell about some of the aesthetic judgments they make in their work and, in the process, shed some light upon the traditions from which their poetry emerges. Joy Harjo discusses how she wrote "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window," her use of repetition influenced by music…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedWiget, Andrew O. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1980
The article uses an interdisciplinary approach to reexamine the literary form and merit of a Zuni ritual narrative poem from the midwinter Shalako ceremonies. After describing the poem's cultural context, the article addresses its shape, structure, language, and style. The article includes the English language text of the poem. (SB)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, American Indian Literature, American Indians
Peer reviewedTsosie, Rebecca – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1986
Explores major themes in contemporary American Indian poetry that comprise the Native ethos of cultural resistance and survival. Correlates certain themes of Indian poetry with those of Black spiritual and blues. Discusses Western and Indian world views, political and social conflict, and art as the agent of criticism and change. Contains 28…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Art Expression
