Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching - Paperback

by Bruce Guernsey (Editor), Ted Kooser (Foreword by), Bruce Guernsey (Author)

Here are twenty classroom-tested exercises that really work, written and used by some of America's best teachers and writers of poetry. Meant for the student and teacher alike, Mapping the Line is also meant for those who have never been in a poetry writing class but have, perhaps, been writing on their own or have been wanting to. This collection is a good place to begin, and to continue.

Author Biography

Bruce Guernsey is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he taught Creative Writing and 19th Century American Literature for twenty-five years. He has also taught at William and Mary, Johns Hopkins, and Virginia Wesleyan where he was Poet in Residence for four years. He was awarded seven faculty excellence awards for teaching at Eastern Illinois, and in 1992-93, was selected as the State of Illinois Board of Governors' "Professor of the Year," the highest award in that state system. He has also been the recipient of two Senior Fulbright Lectureships in American Poetry to Portugal and to Greece. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The American Scholar, and his most recent book is FROM RAIN: Poems, 1970-2010 (Ecco Qua Press, 2012). He is a former editor of The Spoon River Poetry Review.