Powerful Poetry: Introducing the Pongo Writing Method Powerful Poetry: Introducing the Pongo Writing MethodA review of Writing With At-Risk Youth: The Pongo Teen Writing Method by Richard Gold. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013. 196 pp. (ISBN 978-1475802849). $30.95. … Jump to original: Powerful Poetry: Introducing the Pongo Writing Method Powerful Poetry: Introducing the Pongo Writing MethodA review of Writing With At-Risk Youth: The Pongo Teen Writing Method by Richard Gold. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013. 196 pp. (ISBN 978-1475802849). $30.95.