Books

For information about By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, please click on the By Heart page above.

Book Cover Image: Disguised As A Poem

One of the more remarkable works I have come across during many years in the study of writing about American prison experience.

- H. Bruce Franklin, editor of Prison Writing in 20th Century America
Teeth, Wiggly As Earthquakes

Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes focuses on how we as teachers can tap into the imaginations, creativity and observations of our children.

- Marna Wolak, classroom teacher, Oakland, CA
Jump Write In Classroom teachers often feel pressure to choose between using standards-based lessons and activities that engage their students’ creativity and encourage personal expression. In Jump Write In!, however, the experienced writer-teachers from WritersCorps offer numerous exercises that do both: build key standards-based writing skills and give voice to youth.
Solid Ground Upheaval, violence, chasm and split. Such words describe San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906, and other temblors on the San Andreas Fault where the Pacific and North American Plates slide and grind. Stress, displacement, turbulence, rupture: words that also describe the lives of many contemporary youth who live along the metaphoric fautlines of immigration, economic inequity, turf wars, broken hearts, and the gunning down of young friends.

For information about By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, please go to the By Heart page on the website.