 She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, "Beat Not the Poor Desk" and "Common Sense".Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.She also taught at the YMCA, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.