On a passage from the novel The Institute
“‘Dead,’ he said. ‘Dead, dead., can’t be fed, that’s what I said. The Jack is dead.'”
One of the best movie adaptations of Stephen King fiction, in my opinion, is The Dead Zone about a burnt-out English high school teacher who develops supernatural powers. King almost himself became a high school English teacher before writing fiction.
King has written some poetry too. The poet W.H. Auden was told by one student that he or she wanted to say something important through poetry, and he replied something like it is more essential for a poet to want to play with words.