Being with children

by Phillip Lopate

The funny, touching and mind-stretching adventures of a poet who fell in love with teaching in a New York public school.

Genres: Education

Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.

Reviews

[J.]

A humorous record of a writer with no teaching background who teaches writing. There are really great writing activities. The responses are great with a lot of samples of what kids did.

[Johnny]

More interesting as an advanced form of the grad school class BlackBoard comment post and a reference on how wacky the 70s were. Classic.