Ed Jewinski

Ed Jewinski was born in Oberammergau, Germany. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and has been poetry editor of The New Quarterly.

Selected Publications
The Cage in the Open Air. (Black Moss Press, 1979)
Any Morning May Start the Revolution. (Gabro Press, 1983).
No Place To Go. (Gabro Press, 1983).
Milton Acorn and His Works. (ECW Press, 1990).
Joe Rosenblatt and His Works. (ECW Press, 1991).

Books in Print
Jewinski, Ed
Joe Rosenblatt and His Works. ECW Press, 1991. $9.95 ISBN: 1-55022-073-X.
Milton Acorn and His Works. ECW Press, 1990. $9.95 ISBN: 1-55022-062-4.

 

Poet in the School
(Waterloo)

phone: 519-699-5976

email: ejewinsk@mach1.wlu.ca

A poet and English professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Jewinski is the author of The Cage in the Open Air, No Place To Go To, and Any Morning May Start the Revolution. He has been an editor for such publications as The English Quarterly, Poetry WLU and The New Quarterly. Since 1981, Jewinski has been the Senior Poetry Judge for the annual Waterloo County English Awards Program. Known for his comprehensive yet tactful evaluation of students' writing, he has conducted several creative writing workshops for the Waterloo County Board of Education, for schools in South Western Ontario and for the Shad Valley Summer Program at the University of Waterloo. He has also taught creative writing at the Three Schools in Toronto. Jewinski would be pleased to conduct workshops for teachers as well as students.

Grade Levels: 9 - OAC

Fees: standard

Classroom Approach:
Jewinski's "hands-on" workshops leave students with an appreciation of the form and substance of poetry and/or short stories. Emphasizing the necessary difference between abstract and concrete language, Jewinski methodically leads students through the stages of the writing process and helps them see the tremendous advantage of revising. Under his guidance, students put theory into practice by working through the creative writing exercises in a workbook he has prepared specially for the class. Because Jewinski will read from and discuss his own poetry sometime during the session, students do not need to have read his work beforehand.