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Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
by Laura Apol and Jodi Harris
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| Published | March 1999 |
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This article discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students' sense of poetic passion and pleasure and describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices.
Apol and Harris. "Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears." Language Arts 76(4) (March 1999): 314-322.
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