Teachers & Writers Collaborative

The second edition of this best-selling handbook includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms, an updated bibliography, and a resource list of current audio and videocassettes. The Handbook succinctly defines the forms, summarizes their histories, quotes good examples (ancient and modern), and offers professional tricks of the trade on how to use each form.
“This colorful, graphically pleasing, and entertaining reference work is what can happen when those who actually practice and preach poetry present their knowledge.”—Teaching English in the Two-Year College

ISBN 0-915924-60-9

Blazing Pencils offers more than 150 writing ideas that can be used by students and teachers alike. A key virtue is the fine balance between text, exercises, and examples. The guide is accompanied by a complimentary 48-page writing notebook.
“I just started using Blazing Pencils in my English classes and am already getting great results.”—Dean Schneider, Ensworth School, Nashville, TN

ISBN 0-915924-19-6

Novelist Tom Disch joined forces with illustrator Dave Morice to create a series of cartoons that enliven and demystify the complex world of grammar. Disch¹s playful poems lead us to see anew rules long forgotten or never fully understood, while Morice¹s comic treatments flesh out the dry, chalky terrain of pronouns, tenses, infinitives, and prepositions.
“This delightful book rhymes grammar into delightful reasonableness.”—John Hollander

ISBN 0874518504

Classics in the Classroom presents fascinating strategies for using great literature to inspire imaginative writing. The literature discussed in this volume includes myths, epics, lyric poems, plays, stories, and novels, from ancient Sumeria, Greece, Rome, and Persia, and from Europe, Japan, Africa, and the United States. Authors presented include Homer, Sappho, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, Rumi, Shakespeare, Basho, Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Mark Twain, and Hermann Hesse.
“English teachers at any level will find ideas and approaches that will liven up their classes.”—Kliatt

ISBN 0-915924-58-7

ISBN 0-915924-42-0

Heavyweight polyester canvas. Size: 15.5” x 14” x 6”. Features royal blue top panel with matching shoulder-length carry handles. Also features a 6” gusset main compartment for plenty of space!