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By Lucille Clifton, originally published in Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 by Lucille Clifton, 2001. Reprinted on poets.org.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

By Tom Wayman, originally published in Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems 1973-1993, 1993, Harbour Publishing. Here, posted on the website Poetry 180.

RA (coach) shared this as a way to set the stage with new students at the beginning of the semester.

On YouTube, posted July 2007. Episode 1 of Def Poetry Jam. Mali's poem looks at the role of the teacher. For related work by Taylor Mali, follow the mali tag.

Created by Billy Collins (former Poet Laureate of the US) and hosted by the Library of Congress.

RA (coach) shared this site as a poetry resource.

Posted to YouTube by twilight28xo on December 26 2008.

MZ used this song in her lesson, Introduction to Analytical Writing. She began by distributing the lyrics to this song and the Frost poem, The Road Not Taken, and inviting students to compare the two. She then showed this video. Week 8, semester 4.

Patrick Bahls in The WAC Journal, Vol 20, Nov 2009. Bahls, a professor at UNC-Asheville, writes of the success he's had with a poetry assignment for his pre-calc and calculus students. He cites that much of one's success with math (especially advanced math) comes from confidence and finds the "language" of math to be both cumbersome and outdated for most students. The examples of student poetry (and their reactions to the assignment) are also provided as evidence.

This is a really interesting article, and the poetry is both thoughtful and creative. I wonder what both math and writing faculty think of this idea. Has anyone tried something similar in their classrooms? Great cites (and nice poem) on math anxiety. -- Stephanie

By Lewis Carroll on Poemhunter.com. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning discussion in the Comity Club pedagogy circle.