Author Description

"Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds documents fifteen years of an amazingly successful experiment: asking accomplished writers to teach creative writing workshops in juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, inner-city schools and centers for newly arrived immigrants." "Here is a collection of work from many of the talented people who formed the ranks of the National WritersCorps, along with personal essays where they share their experiences of entering a classroom for the first lime, teaching sestinas and hip hop beats, and forging relationships with young people of diverse ethnicities, ages and backgrounds. Readers can follow these teaching artists on their journey into the halls and streets of America's diverse neighborhoods, as they enrich the lives and creativity of their students - and find their own voices changed in the process."--BOOK JACKET.