Professional writers and educators share their techniques for teaching imaginative writing and review books on writing pedagogy and related subjects. Please visit the Teachers & Writers website to learn more and to view this month's current lesson plan and featured writer. Jenny Browne is a Texas poet (against the death penalty and George W. Bush!) She lives in San Antonio and is regional director of Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review. Her poems are included in the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Project in Austin, Texas and upcoming in permafrost, Many Mountains Moving and 5AM. She has taught throughout the state for the Texas Commission on the Arts, Arts San Antonio and Gemini Ink. Her first collection of poems, Glass, was published by Pecan Grove Press. "I have been sitting on the floor with a class of first-graders for nearly an hour when a girl waves both hands wildly above her head. 'Miss, 'she exclaims, 'I am so thirsty with talk.' We are working our way towards metaphors, but her inspired declaration reminds me once again that these students don't really need me to 'teach' them poetry. They just need some water." ...