Poetry: Inside Out and Outside In

learning to write and read poetry by thinking like a poet

©S. Ingraham, lightshedder.com

Inside Out and Outside In An Overview
Poetry is for People exploding the poetry myth
Lets Get Physical a foundational activity
Inside Out and Outside In the complete theory, everything (?) you will ever need to know about poetry
The Core of the Apple, where the seeds of truth reside: just the core elements of the Inside Out and Outside In theory
Poetry is.../ Is Poems: part one: Poetry is...
Poetry is.../ Is Poems: part two: Is Poems

Student Is Poems

Half the Work Is Done For You: picture poems

Student Picture Poems

Shoplifting shopping for images and sound bites in the supermarket of the senses

Student Shoplifting Poems

Getting the Sound Down okay, so it still doesn't look or sound like a poem. Help is here.

Getting Down to the Sound just what is all this rhythm and rhyme and alliteration stuff good for anyway?
Digging Out The Poem turning a descriptive paragraph into a poem, a little (mindshaking) exercise for the poetically impaired
Breath Taking, Face Shaping Poetry the body knows the real function of pattern in poetry

Surprise! an examination of the ways in which poets use language in unexpected and creative ways to push the boundaries of understanding.
Indian Giver structured reader response for revision
Outside In reading poetry for the inside, from the outside in
Is it poetry or is it therapy? Performance or paper, it is publication that makes the poem.

Performance activities
The Anthology bookmaking made easy

Bigger Than The Both of Us finding you voice, the universal in the particular
Inside Out and Outside In: The Poems: all the poems in sequence