Background
Tannenbaum, Judith Nettie was born on February 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert and Edith (Lazaroff) Tannenbaum.
(When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing c...)
When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing class at San Quentin prison, one of the students commented, "Now I'm going to give you an assignment: write about these past four years from your point of view; tell your story; let us know what you learned." This beautifully crafted memoir is the fulfillment of that assignment.In stirring and intimate prose, Tannenbaum details the challenges...
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(Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Prima...)
Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades
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(When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing c...)
When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing class at San Quentin prison, one of the students commented, "Now I'm going to give you an assignment: write about these past four years from your point of view; tell your story; let us know what you learned." This beautifully crafted memoir is the fulfillment of that assignment. In stirring and intimate prose, Tannenbaum details the challenges, rewards, and paradoxes of teaching poetry to maximum-security inmates convicted of capital crimes. Recounting how she and her students shared profound and complicated lessons about humanity and life both inside and outside San Quentin's walls, Tannenbaum tells provocative stories of obsession, racism, betrayal, despair, courage, and beauty. Contrary to the growing public perception of prisoners as demons, the men in this poetry class-Angel, Coties, Elmo, Glenn, Richard, Spoon-emerge not as beasts or heroes but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts, and feelings strikingly similar to the free. Tannenbaum provides revealing views of conditions in the cellblocks and shows how the realities of prison life often paralleled her own life experiences. She also relates such events as visits to her group by prominent poets (including Nobel Prize-winner Czeslaw Milosz); a prison production of Waiting for Godot sponsored by Samuel Beckett himself; and the presentation of her students' work to a class of sixth and eighth graders, who connected to the prisoners' words by writing their own poems to the inmates.
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Tannenbaum, Judith Nettie was born on February 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert and Edith (Lazaroff) Tannenbaum.
Bachelor, University California, Berkeley, 1968. Master of Arts, Sonoma State University, 1979.
Born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, she has worked in the field of community-based arts, sharing poetry in a wide variety of settings from primary school classrooms to maximum security prisons. She has received grants from the California Arts Council and has written for journals including PMLA and Teaching Artist Journal.
(When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing c...)
(When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing c...)
(Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Prima...)
(Poetry Teaching and Prisoner Education.)
(Book by Tannenbaum, Judith)
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association West.
1 child Sara Rachel Press.