Teaching poetry to youth: Authorship and Empowerment | Sheryl Noethe | TEDxUMontana

Sheryl Noethe thinks that young people are the world's best poets. They have no preconceived notion of how their writing is supposed to be. They write with the purity and clarity most adults have lost. Sheryl Noethe is the founder of the Missoula Writing Collaborative and served as Montana Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2013. She has received a numerous awards including National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her collections include Grey Dog Big Sky which won the High Plains Award for poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake and Ghost Openings which won the William Stafford Prize for Poetry. She is currently poetry editor for High Desert Journal. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx