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This article is reprinted from The American Poetry Review.Robert Bly is a poet.
As Ken Worpole has observed (TUR, April 1974), “to suggest to many teachers that writing is another form of production and that it could be possible to see the classroom, or the English lesson, as a workshop, is to confront very firmly established ideas on the nature of the literary process. Were we to remodel our idea of the English lesson into that of a writing workshop, and then being to think about adding on a layout/artwork center and than a printing press, we might come very close to the model upon which most children's idea of relevance and usefulness is based. For why shouldn't the children we teach become published authors, and isn't it time that we found an audience for their work.” It is those “established ideas” and those questions that the cooperative publishing house that poet Robert Bly describes here confronts, adding dimensions of its own. Its purposes aren't centrally to affect what goes on in schools, but it has clear implications for schools.
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Bly, R. Starting a cooperative house. Urban Rev 7, 327–330 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02222262
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02222262