Poem of the Day with Meg Davis

Poem of the Day with Meg Davis 

Have you ever found yourself dreading the teaching of poetry? Whether it’s because of your own personal feelings towards poetry or how you fear students will react to poetry? 

This episode, Matthew Sroka chats with Meg Davis about her article “Every day do something that won't compute”: Student perceptions of daily poetry practice. We discuss the poetry baggage that teachers tend to carry around and students' negative feelings towards poetry and what we as teachers can do about it.

Meg Davis is an adjunct instructor and doctoral student in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She began teaching high school English in 2015. Meg’s classrooms focus on creative writing, contemporary poetry, and dialogic processes of learning. Meg is interested in poetry pedagogy, poetic inquiry, and practices that invite poetics more effectively and wholeheartedly into classroom spaces.

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“Every day do something that won't compute”: Student perceptions of daily poetry practice