
We leave the summer behind and step into a classroom in Queens, New York, filled with restless eleven-year-olds. At the front sits Sam Swope, a visiting writer who is determined to teach these children the pleasures of reading Wallace Stevens’ "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Take a seat. You might learn something. Produced by Pejk Malinovski.
» Sam Swope’s essay on teaching Stevens’ poem to children, part of his forthcoming collection titled
I Am a Pencil, is on
Sam Swope's website
»
Full text of Wallace Stevens’ poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
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