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Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities
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Description for Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities
Paperback. Editor(s): Coles, Katharine. Num Pages: 318 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Katharine Coles and a cadre of poets and artists provide this essential guide and inspiration. Blueprints creates for poets and arts organisers the sense that they are part of a larger, noble endeavour based in shared values and commitment to poetry. The first three sections include essays by a dozen poets and artists about the ways they have brought poetry into different kinds of communities. These essays demonstrate what has been done ... Read more
How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Katharine Coles and a cadre of poets and artists provide this essential guide and inspiration. Blueprints creates for poets and arts organisers the sense that they are part of a larger, noble endeavour based in shared values and commitment to poetry. The first three sections include essays by a dozen poets and artists about the ways they have brought poetry into different kinds of communities. These essays demonstrate what has been done ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811473
SKU
V9781607811473
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About
Katharine Coles is inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, professor of English at the University of Utah, and Utah poet laureate. She is the author of numerous volumes of petry and has published poems in a wide variety of literary journals and anthologies.
Reviews for Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities
"This indispensable guide offers specific examples of programs that work well in diverse and far-flung communities. There is no guide like this, and it's long overdue."—Peggy Shumaker, Alaska State Writer Laureate "A most worthy and urgently needed resource to help bring poetry into new communities."—Guy Lebeda, Literature Coordinator, Utah Arts Council