Selected Publications
North Country Spring (children's poetry). (Penumbra Press, 1980, 1993).
Round Trip Home. (Penumbra Press, 1984).
Escape to White Otter Castle. (Singing Shield, 1993).
Naming. (Penumbra Press, 1994).
Jamie of Fort William. (Borealis Press, 1996).
Selected Anthologies
Story Teller's Encore. (Canadian Library Association, 1984).
And Other Travels: An Anthology of Poems. (Moonstone Press, 1988).
Lobstick. (Gage, 1988).
Books in Print
Kouhi, Elizabeth
Escape to White Otter Castle. Singing Shield, 1993.
Jamie of Fort William. Borealis Press, 1996.
Naming. Penumbra Press, 1994. $10.95 ISBN: 0-921254-67-9.
North Country Spring (children's poetry). Penumbra Press, 1993. $12.95
ISBN: 0-921254-56-3.
Round Trip Home. Penumbra Press, 1984. $6.95 ISBN: 0-920806-57-0.
Elizabeth Kouhi, 413 N Edward St, #215, Thunder Bay ON P7C 4P6, (807) 577-7557
Poet in the School
(Thunder Bay)
phone: 807-577-7557
Kouhi is a poet and former school teacher. Her parents were pioneers in Northwestern Ontario, a landscape from which she draws many of her images. Ms. Kouhi has taught high school for nineteen years and elementary school for two and half. She has also taught a special creative writing course, and has read and conducted workshops in local Thunder Bay elementary schools. For those teachers with developmentally handicapped children in their class, Kouhi's book The Story of Philip, may be of special interest. It has proven popular with children in grades four to five. She has also published two novels for children: Jamie of Thunder Bay and Sarah Jane of Silver Islet.
Grade Levels: all
Fees: standard
Classroom Approach:
Students
should be familiar with her work prior to the visit. She recommends poems from
North Country Spring for grades 4-6, and Round Trip Home for grades
10-12. Kouhi takes an interest in the individual members of a class. For the
elementary level, she will employ a question and answer format; a lesson in
word-play; an exploration of words as living things; words with weight, slowness,
speed, colour, and words creating images. For the secondary level, Kouhi begins
with the idea of a poem being an experience. She may include formal discussion
of various techniques used by poets to communicate through both mind and emotions,
and she may use theatre arts techniques (such as asking students to imagine
situations, using all their senses), to get students writing their own poems.