Steve McCabe is a visual artist, poet and art instructor. His fine line drawings have illustrated several poetry books and he has designed numerous images for the cover page of WORD, Toronto's literary calendar. As Artist in Residence at ARTPARK (Lewiston, NY), he created mixed media sculptures incorporating text and found objects. He has painted murals and exhibited works on paper. He is the creator of a children's activity feature syndicated by the Toronto Star.
Selected Publications
Wyatt Earp in Dallas: 1963. (Seraphim Editions,
1995).
Radio Picasso. (watershedBooks, 1999).
Selected Anthologies
Understatement. (Seraphim Editions, 1996).
Ars Poetica. (Chapbook published by the Art Bar Poetry
Reading Series, Toronto, 1996).
Books in Print
McCabe, Steve
Radio Picasso. watershedBooks, 1999.
Wyatt Earp in Dallas: 1963. Seraphim Editions, 1995. $14.95
ISBN 0-9699639-0-4.
Steve McCabe 9 Sanford Avenue Toronto ON M4L 2E6
phone: 416-465-3800
Steve McCabe is a visual artist and poet. His first book (Wyatt Earp in Dallas: 1963) dealt with shattered mythology and revised history. Steve is also the creator of imagination activities for children published by the Toronto Star. He has created poetry at "Word on the Street" festival with children and their families. His new poetry is included in the anthology Understatement (Seraphim Editions 1996).
Grade Levels: 1 - 6
Fees: standard
Classroom Approach:
Steve's classroom approach
draws heavily on his thousands of hours teaching visual art with
humour, wordplay and sensitivity. Younger grades begin their poetic
journey looking through the windows of the "Versemobile".
They reflect what they see with nonsense chants and rhyming activities.
They invent imaginary destinations excited by the fun of language
discovery. Sometimes what they see is quiet or sad. Junior grades
focus on forms such as Haiku and Tanka which allow them to express
themselves within a structure. Simple actions such as tracing
your palm with a feather help to create a reflective mood which
can grow into free verse. Steve shares with the students how he
creates a poem, what inspires or triggers a sequence of thoughts
and how he edits this idea.