Some essays are personal accounts of teaching experiences and reflect on the meaning of Douglass to students being educated in America. Others offer lesson plans for teaching Douglass with samples of student poems and narratives inspired by the readings. Contributors include Lorenzo Thomas, Margot Fortunato Galt, Ron Padgett, and Marvin Hoffman. -Christina Davis, Chris Edgar and Ron Padgett collaborate on a comprehensive outline for teaching writing through Douglass' Narrative, entitled Thirty-Two Writing Ideas Using Douglass' Narrative. The exercises are appropriate for all levels of...

These 17 innovative essays by Julia Alvarez, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch, and other distinguished educators, relate their reflections and imaginative exercises for using WCW in the writing classroom. This is a popular guide that encompasses nearly all of Williams's oeuvre-from such classics as Red Wheelbarrow to his epic poem Patterson, as well as his short fictions and novels.