Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellent place to start

YouthSpeaks is an amazing program and Jen & Scott have done an excellent job putting together this guide, capturing the essence of their mission: "the next generation can speak for itself."Too many writing programs take a hierarchical approach, attempting to define poetry as if in a vacuum, with no regard for individual experience and taste. This guide flips that tired, off-putting approach and instead, starts with the students' own work, introducing and clarifying poetic devices they already use, slowly slipping in the work of others. The exercises are many and varied, their recognition of and focus on performance is impressive and the inclusion of several poems and anecdotes by students of the program is crucial.If you teach poetry, or even if you just write it yourself, this book should be on your bookshelf.