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What Colleagues Say about Barbara
- "Bright, mature, inspired and inspiring, devoted to her writing and her students ... I have been impressed by her energy and determination. I have been moved by her poetry." — Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and author of Night
- "Barbara’s passion for ideas, her delight in communicating them, and the respect that she has for people...these are just a few of the qualities that make her such a formidable teacher. It’s rare to find a poet of such gifts who also cares about teaching as much as Barbara does." — Askold Melnyczuk, Boston University Creative Writing Program
- "Ms. Hyett is a remarkable teacher. Her students, in their evaluations of her course, consistently comment on how encouraging she is, how she creates the feeling that they are doing better—these remarks about a teacher whose grading is strict. I wish I knew her trick." — William G. Riggs, Associate Chair, English, Boston University
- "The evaluations of Barbara's Teachers-as-Scholars seminars are effusive declarations of pleasure and appreciation; they are the most glowing evaluations I have ever read." — William J. Holinger, Acting Director, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- "[She is] quickly becoming an icon of the program...goddess, magic, miracle worker, life giving. Wow....The teachers absolutely adored [her] seminar." — Henry Bolter, Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard
- "Barbara Hyett has been one of the most outstanding artists participating in the Artists-In-Residence Program, funded by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her passion and skill in teaching is remarkable and widely known. Everywhere I go, from the Museum of Fine Arts to the homes of friends, I hear enthusiastic testimony of Barbara's talent in bringing poetry to people through teaching and reading." — Anne Hawley, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities
- "She believes passionately that each student, albeit adult or child, has a dynamic creative potential and she truly enjoys discovering and revealing this ability." — Martha M. Wright, Department of Education, Museum of Fine Arts
- "I have never seen anyone conduct a class by the workshop method better than Barbara does. Every teacher of writing, no matter how experienced, can learn something from her." — James Buechler, former English Department Head, Duxbury Schools
- "Barbara was equally effective whether working with senior citizens, parents and teachers, or public school students in any age group. This could only have been achieved, as I know from direct observation, by someone of her high degree of energy, remarkable intelligence, and gifted writing ability. Her very special trick of relating to absolutely everyone in workshops, class sessions, or poetry readings precedes from her ability to perceive the needs and sensitivities of those around her and to recognize them all." — L. Joan Brown, Supervisor of Language Development, Sharon Schools
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