You Are Poetry

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We are all poets-whether we know it or not-because we all have unique voices to share and stories to tell. Educator</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Mike Johnston </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>honors that truth with </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>You Are Poetry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a step-by-step curriculum that brings out and lifts up student voice through the art of slam poetry. Across four highly choice-driven course units complete with modifications for all poets in K-8 classrooms</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Johnston guides readers through activities and insights that will grow poets in your school and citizens in your community. At a time when students struggle to form empathic relationships at school </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>You Are Poetry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> underscores the value of being open and alive to the world. These tools don't just spark creative expression; they go beyond nurturing it from within as a gift to ourselves and a path to real connection with others.</span></p><p> </p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Mike not only makes poetry accessible for all but he gives many incredible activities and resources for you to help others create and understand the beauty in poetry as well. I know I'll be coming back to this book again and again. -Todd Nesloney author of </span><em style=color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>When Kids Lead</em><span style=color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> and dire director of culture and strategic leadership TEPSA</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Mike's heart for the poetry in others is clear in every story tool strategy and page of this important resource. -Buddy Wakefield three-time World Poetry Slam champion and most-toured performance poet in history</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>This book . . . provides tools and techniques for writers at any stage to develop their craft. Readers of all ages will be inspired encouraged and challenged to find their poetic voices.-Ian Keteku former World Poetry Slam champion</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>