Tag: teaching
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book news & co.
Excited to share that my next book, we say Yes way before you, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in March 2020! You can read about the project as well as two poems from it in this profile. Special thanks to Diane Goettel and the BLP crew for being so welcoming! Been sitting on this…
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writing prompt: predictive text
Back to teaching full time this week. Been exciting and inspiring, while at the same time very real. What I mean is that the more I teach, the more I feel myself be more myself. And it’s not a thing I can summon or call forth. The space held in shared open questioning and conversation…
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exquisiting with nathalie handal
This week’s poem, “White Trees” by Nathalie Handal, provided the first line to an exquisite corpse exercise I conducted with my classes this week. An exquisite corpse is a writing game created by surrealists and is conducted in a group setting. Each person writes down a line of poetry, then hands their paper to another…
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* writing the woods with wislawa szymborska
In the summer course I’m teaching, we have been discussing ideas of writing as performance; that is, what gets going as soon as words are on the page. It’s similar to what William Stafford means when he says, “The moon you are describing is the one you are creating,” which I wrote about in a…
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* twinklings & twinges: gwendolyn brooks
This week, I had the opportunity to share and discuss excerpts from The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop with my intermediate composition class. Along with the poems, we also read some of the Ars Poeticas & Essays included in the anthology. Going between poems and prose allowed me to supplement the…
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* personal seasons via rae armantrout
Above is a photo of our beluga friend, Spoot, who came along with us on our trip to Texas at the end of last month. This image came to mind as I reflect on all that’s happened this past month. And what happened? I started teaching a new class, begun reading into the a hundred…
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* naos to meet you (again)
I laughed too hard when I came across this the other day. There’s been some heavy duty lesson planning going on. Which means summer’s taking a turn. Before summer’s over, I thought I’d share the Naos poem recently published in Cactus Heart. It’s from the same world as but not in the Naos chapbook published earlier…
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* word is bond with Eduardo C. Corral
To remind everyone, here was the state of my desk last week: And, true to my word, here is what it looks like this week: That is Milton, our apartment’s guard sheep, doing a final inspection of my clean-up. I had to sneak up on him – he has a no-camera policy while on the…
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* arriving with Denise Levertov
Overland to the Islands – Denise Levertov Let’s go — much as that dog goes, intently haphazard. The Mexican light on a day that “smells like autumn in Connecticut” makes iris ripples on his black gleaming fur — and that too is as one would desire — a radiance consorting with the dance. Under his…
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* Williams’ other plum poem & the friday influence
To a poor old woman – William Carlos Williams munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out…
The Friday Influence 