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Teaching Children to Write
The children that poet Robert Glück taught booed the “Poetry Playhouse” and wrote scatological jokes. He asked them for more.
Robert Glück’s books include the poetry collections Reader, La Fontaine (a collaboration with Bruce Boone), and In Commemoration of the Visit (a collaboration with Kathleen Fraser); the novels Jack the Modernist and Margery Kempe (republished in 2020 by NYRB Classics); and the essay collection, Communal Nude (Semiotext[e], 2018). He lives in San Francisco.
The children that poet Robert Glück taught booed the “Poetry Playhouse” and wrote scatological jokes. He asked them for more.