Jocson (education, arts and sciences, Washington U., St. Louis), a former high school teacher, presents an ethnographic study of urban high school youth at Bellevue High School who participated in writer and poet June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at the U. of California, Berkeley. She describes how seven students made sense of their school experiences as they read and wrote poetry and how this can help educators, policy makers, and researchers understand their literacy learning and development and improve teaching and learning. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)