24 pages, 5.5 in x 8.5 in
Publication Date: Mar-2008
The Still Home Teachers' Guide is for those teachers who love poetry themselves but have difficulty finding ways to make the genre, in the current terminology, “relevant” to their students. In this companion to Hub City’s poetry anthology, Still Home: The Essential Poetry of Spartanburg, Edwin P. Epps presents more than a dozen classroom exercises and ideas to engage high school and college students in an exploration of poetry.
Writes Epps in this guide: “The reality of poetry is that most of it is remarkably and immediately approachable. This is especially true of the writing of poets—like those in Still Home—who share a place, a time, a way of life with their readers. Indeed, such poets themselves can be a teacher’s greatest resource in his or her quest to unlock the poetic box.”
About the Author
Edwin C. Epps
Poet and scholar Ed Epps was born in Columbia, SC. He is the author of Literary South Carolina (Hub City, 2004), a panoramic history of the Palmetto State’s writers and rich literary tradition.His educational writing has appeared in numerous trade journals and books, and his poetry has been published in Point; Savannah Literary Journal; You, Year: New poems by Point poets; and other journals. Epps currently teaches English and creative writing at Spartanburg High School.
Accolades are pouring in for Hub City Press. In 2012, our books won four IPPY Awards: Philip Gerard received a Gold IPPY as the top essay collection by an indie publisher for The Patron Saint of Dreams; Michel Stone's The Iguana Tree received a Bronze IPPY in literary fiction; Matt Matthews' Mercy Creek won Bronze for best regional fiction of the Southeast; and Ron Rash's Waking received a Silver IPPY in poetry. Waking, an Okra Pick, also has been nominated for the Weatherford Award, the top prize in Appalachian fiction. Hub City Press won 6 previous IPPY Awards, including a Gold IPPY for Brian Ray's Through the Pale Door as the top novel in the Southeast. Lou Dischler's My Only Sunshine received a Silver in the same category, as well as an Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers. Expecting Goodness & Other Stories, edited by C. Michael Curtis, received a Silver IPPY as the top short story collection in North America. Out Loud, edited by Ed Madden and Candace Chellew-Hodge, received a Bronze in the GLBT nonfiction category. Kirk Neely's A Good Mule is Hard to Find was nominated for the SIBA Book Award in nonfiction, and Tim Peeler's Checking Out in poetry.
