Four former Bucks County poets laureate – Mary Jo LoBello Jerome, Katherine Hahn Falk, Luray Gross and Laren McClung – and Bucks County Community College professor Dr. Ethel Rackin recently published a handbook for local educators called “Fire Up the Poems: Poetry Prompts for Teachers by Bucks County Poets Laureate.”
Funded by the Bucks County Community College Foundation, “Fire Up the Poems” is designed to provide valuable, novel and accessible poetry lessons to local Bucks County language arts educators at no cost. The prompts aim to help increase students’ appreciation of the art of poetry and strengthen critical thinking skills. The handbook shares information about how and why poets write, how poetry can create a movement for change, and how poetry enables a wider understanding of ideas.
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