I had a very cool experience yesterday evening, reading poems with Holly Hughes and a few of her poetry students — including my friend Shana — at Edmonds Community College. Also eating chocolate cake. One of the many things we talked about was publication. I’m tired of sending this poem out and having it rejected. […]
My student Christian Zerbel stars in this video (8 minutes), produced for the EvCC Clipper by another of my students, Paul Edwards. If you’re wondering what’s going to happen on Dec. 21, 2012, perhaps you should watch it, too.
Here’s an essay, “Little Big People” by Chelsea Cain, from this week’s New York Times book review page. In it, Cain tells us about her two writing groups, either of which I would love to join. I’m going to make my students read it, too. “Write what you love. Write about dragons. And if you […]
It’s Wednesday afternoon. I am still working on the papers I was supposed to return to my students on Monday, and now I have two new sets of papers to grade. I get this choked up, weepy feeling. I want to go to my boss’s corner office and say, “I’m done. I quit.” I can’t remember why […]