K-Poets

Quotes

"Children are natural poets who delight in words. They automatically integrate their poetic thoughts with liner toughts, so poetry easily weaves in and out of their speech." - Tucker, S. (1997). Word weavings. Writing poetry with young children with young children. Glenview, IL: Good Year Books.

"Poetry is my kind of fooling" - Robert Frost.

"We are all poemers." - An anonymous k-poet. March 17th, 2005, ELC.

"Poetry is a mystery, but it is a mystery children can participate in and master" - Kenneth Kosch, In Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, 2000, p.22.