a poetry like arson

by Linda Wikene Johnson


a poetry like arson

creeps into my hands

how will you stop me

you can't watch me every minute

I'm good with matches

and want every page

in flames

every heart

burning

every eye

on the licking fire

torching

the words

flickering down

the page

criticism is kindling

applause is

gasoline

The first two both have extensive annotated film and print bibliographies and resource sections along with suggestions for day to day activities. Regretfully, the WITT curriculum relied heavily on mimeographed sheets developed by instructors many of which have been lost in the turnover.

OTT tries to incorporate some of that borrowed and footnoted material in the resources section of appropriate skills units, and provides an eighteen week sample curriculum. Also of significant use to instructors would be the Toronto YWCA's Discovering Life Skills With Women, a four volume set.

Even if the Province of Ontario does not want out-of-province resources, it would do well to use the model of a practical course manual to standardize curricula, ensuring the delivery of basic developmental training to women seeking bridging or pre-trades training. Instructors familiar with these programs can always be more creative, but for those who are new to the field a more detailed map is often useful.

Operation Access is available from ACTEW,801 Eglinton Ave. W., 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ont., M5N lE3, (416) 783-3590: Part I $13.00, Part II $13.00, Part III $8.00; Part I & 2 $20.00; Part 1,11,&111, $24.00; Part I & III $15.00.

Marcia Braundy is a union carpenter and employment equity advocate. She has developed and instructed WITT courses at colleges in British Columbia and, and recently edited Surviving and Training: Women in Trades and Technology and Employment Equity, a compilation of presentations made at the WITT conference in October of 1988. .



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