Higher Education Anthology Series
This paper looks at an anthology series titled Contemporary teaching and learning Poetry edited by Dr Patrick Blessinger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This particular anthology series is most likely to be enjoyed by students in a higher learning institution or level. The usefulness of the series in a classroom is to make use of poetry media and creative prose for the exploration of teaching and learning in all dimensions. Educators are enabled by this series to express their experiences, both individual and shared as it gives diverse perspectives of other educators around the world. The series showcases creative language and writing and how they can be used as the driving factors for inquiries, personal empowerment, professional development, human agency and artistic self-expression.
The series includes volumes that showcase different types of poetry such as rhymes, blank verse and free verse poems as well as short creative prose for example short creative nonfiction, prose poems and lyric essays. Volumes in the series can also function as textbooks for college courses related to poetry, art and creative writing. The set additionally gives a chance to literary forms as well as subgenres of original prose closely aligned with poetry which allows the writers to merge of more standard genres and creative prose.
The series deepens not only human understanding but also students’ intellect, imagination and emotions. Educators and students to appreciate and be deeply aware of experiential knowledge which is capable of fostering learning and teaching experiences that are meaningful. Experimental creative writing forms are also welcome for expressing and interpreting the manifold meanings of human experiences through synthesising, integrating, re-purposing, dancing with and creatively mixing elements and techniques from different genres in ways that are more innovative and meaningful.