Karen Benke is a poet and teacher who has inspired children in the art of creative writing for sixteen years as a writing teacher, free-write facilitator, and poet-teacher in the California Poets in the Schools program, where she specializes in leading workshops for children in elementary and middle schools. In this video, Karen introduces her new book--inspired by her students--Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing.
The book includes wordplay, open-ended writing experiments, encouragement from writers and poets, and enough blank pages to let a child's words roam.
Rip The Page! goes on sale Tuesday, July 27, 2010 from Shambhala Publications. For more information, go to www.karenbenke.com.
Karen Benke rocks! An inspiration to kids and adults alike!! Get this book
22mrjupiter 10 months ago