Assessment Quote by Cate Marvin

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do,…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

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

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to…

— Wendy Cope

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating…

— Harold Bloom

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways…

— Rob Nixon

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

— Monica Youn