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On October 6, 2015, Humanities Texas hosted a one-day teacher workshop at the Byrne-Reed House in Austin on strategies for teaching and understanding poetry.

At the workshop, faculty and participants examined poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ted Kooser, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Kay Ryan, and Mary Oliver, among others. The workshop emphasized close interaction with scholars and writers and the development of effective pedagogical strategies and engaging assignments and activities, with special attention given to teaching critical reading skills.

Workshop faculty included Betty Sue Flowers (The University of Texas at Austin), Naomi Shihab Nye (Academy of American Poets), Coleman Hutchison (The University of Texas at Austin), and Rosemary Catacalos, the 2013 Texas Poet Laureate.

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Call 512.440.1991 (press 2) or email institutes@humanitiestexas.org.

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"Teaching and Understanding Poetry" Workshop : Slideshow
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  1. Thumbnail of: "Teaching and Understanding Poetry" workshop participants at the Byrne-Reed House in Austin.
  2. Thumbnail of: Coleman Hutchison, associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, delivers a lecture entitled "Teaching Students to Care and Think about Poetry: Or, Whitman's Facebook and Dickinson's Tweets."
  3. Thumbnail of: Betty Sue Flowers, professor emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin and former director of the LBJ Presidential Library, proposes several strategies for encouraging student interest in poetry in her talk “Why Read a Poem?”
  4. Thumbnail of: Daniel Farias of San Antonio’s Johnson High School asks Betty Sue Flowers a question following her lecture.
  5. Thumbnail of: In her presentation "Walking through an Open Door: Encouraging Creative Writing with Young People," the distinguished writer Naomi Shihab Nye draws on her years of experience working as a poet-in-the-schools.
  6. Thumbnail of: Using Langston Hughes's "I, Too" as a model text, Coleman Hutchison discusses close reading strategies with teachers during an afternoon seminar.
"Teaching and Understanding Poetry" workshop participants at the Byrne-Reed House in Austin.
"Teaching and Understanding Poetry" Workshop : Thumbnails
  1. Thumbnail of: "Teaching and Understanding Poetry" workshop participants at the Byrne-Reed House in Austin.
  2. Thumbnail of: Coleman Hutchison, associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, delivers a lecture entitled "Teaching Students to Care and Think about Poetry: Or, Whitman's Facebook and Dickinson's Tweets."
  3. Thumbnail of: Betty Sue Flowers, professor emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin and former director of the LBJ Presidential Library, proposes several strategies for encouraging student interest in poetry in her talk “Why Read a Poem?”
  4. Thumbnail of: Daniel Farias of San Antonio’s Johnson High School asks Betty Sue Flowers a question following her lecture.
  5. Thumbnail of: In her presentation "Walking through an Open Door: Encouraging Creative Writing with Young People," the distinguished writer Naomi Shihab Nye draws on her years of experience working as a poet-in-the-schools.
  6. Thumbnail of: Using Langston Hughes's "I, Too" as a model text, Coleman Hutchison discusses close reading strategies with teachers during an afternoon seminar.
  7. Thumbnail of: Rosemary Catacalos, 2013 Texas Poet Laureate, explains how in-class creative writing exercises can be a valuable teaching tool.
  8. Thumbnail of: Betty Sue Flowers discusses the poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens with teachers during an afternoon seminar.
  9. Thumbnail of: A teacher presents her response to a creative writing exercise lead by Rosemary Catacalos.
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