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for emerging young writers, especially those in middle and high school. For more than 20 years, young writers—many of whom go on to major in creative writing in college—have studied with Ibur in this program. She has continued her work with prisoners and with veterans, and she has conducted a private
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When Ibur resumed teaching, her goal was to make creative writing an outreach medium. While she has continued, over the course of her career, to teach writing and poetry to elementary and secondary students in public and private schools throughout the St. Louis area, to work as an outreach educator
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Ibur established the habit of writing in elementary school by keeping a journal; she began writing poetry in middle school. Although she pursued a course of independent study in creative writing during college, she regards herself as virtually self-taught in the forms of poetry, knowledge that she
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Ibur has encouraged literacy through creative writing in multiple low-income housing projects in St. Louis and neighboring towns in
Missouri, and she has taught in job readiness programs for the junior colleges in St. Louis. For ten years she taught writing to men who were homeless, creating a
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of St. Louis. Through the CAT Institute she has, since 1997, prepared more than three hundred artists of all disciplines and community activists to collaborate in developing arts programs aimed at effecting social change, primarily in under-resourced community settings such as neighborhood
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Jane Ellen (Janie) Ibur was born
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Jail. In recent years, her teaching has focused primarily on formal poetry with all her students. She uses poetry as one way to process thoughts and to problem solve, to form community and to learn negotiation skills.
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in numerous residential schools, and to work at multiple school sites in reading supplement programs, she has sought to expand the settings in which she teaches and to vary the groups with whom she works.
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organizations, social service agencies, development initiatives, and education programs. The CAT Institute is a national model that has received recognition from the
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R. Woodard, a woman who had been in the Ibur family's employ for forty years. Her 33-year bond with
Woodard became the subject of Ibur's poetic memoir,
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Drumvoices Review: A Confluence of
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336:"Mrs. Abraham," "Mrs. Stand-in," "Shooting Stars" "Mom & Frank,"
866:"Jane Ellen Ibur 'surprised' to join Warrior Poets | Book Blog"
518:, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (1989), St. Louis University Press, St. Louis, MO.
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595:, No. 4. (1997), First Civilizations Inc., St. Louis, MO.
567:, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1995), Kimberly Press Inc., Orange, CA.
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486:"His Bread I Eat, His Song I Sing," "Ingestion,"
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746:"PenUltimate Press – Publishing with a Purpose"
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502:Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Poetry
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437:"The Girl In The Closet," "The Honk,"
232:Ibur has been recognized twice by the
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304:"God On Noah," "Grandmother And Me,"
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324:Southern Illinois University Press
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598:"Mrs. Paladin," "Mrs. Rifleman,"
565:California State Poetry Quarterly
453:Writer's Information – Rhyme Time
409:"A Hat Converses With Its Head,"
795:"St. Louis Poet Jane Ellen Ibur"
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198:National Endowment for the Arts
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683:"Mrs. Noah: Lost and Found,"
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184:Literature for the Halibut
662:"Hibiscus," "The Skull,"
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283:"Stray Dogs," "Cat Nap,"
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641:"Mrs. Noah Looks Back,"
570:"Water," "God On Noah,"
193:Regional Arts Commission
139:Early life and education
530:Literati Internazionale
479:"He Took It With Him,"
472:"A Man Leans Forward,"
368:"After Apple Picking,"
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404:Saint Louis University
252:Ibur is the author of
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228:Awards and recognition
535:"Pieces of My Soul,"
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391:"How High Is Maybe,"
345:Blindness Isn’t Black
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202:The Kresge Foundation
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616:"Half the Problem,"
493:"The Crying House,"
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211:Currently Ibur runs
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118:Poet; arts educator
676:"Mrs. Noah 3:27,"
377:"Chair," "Teeth,"
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299:The Book of Wisdom
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