Class Quote by Allison Joseph

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are…

— Cate Marvin

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you…

— Robert Pinsky

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

— Victoria Chang

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.

— Vivek Oberoi

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping…

— A. R. Ammons

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

— Aaron Belz

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

— Gerald Stern