{"product_id":"inside-my-pencil-teaching-poetry-in-detroit-public-schools-paperback","title":"Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Markus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit -- InsideOut Literary Arts Project -- Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil -- the same beat-up, unsharpened pencil Markus has carried with him, story has it, since he was in the third grade. With nods to Pablo Neruda, Mark Strand, T.S. Eliot, and the vital honesty of his own poetic experience, he invites children to explore the dreamscapes of their imaginary worlds, encouraging even the most resistant students to see what magic and wonder awaits them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Markus\u003c\/b\u003e is the Senior Writer with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBob, or Man on Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several other books of short fiction, among them \u003ci\u003eWe Make Mud\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fish and the Not Fish\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156557959303,"sku":"9781941531860","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/233172b0c04ac9555ff77b656c61d180.webp?v=1733244568","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/inside-my-pencil-teaching-poetry-in-detroit-public-schools-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}