Tag Archives: Pedagogy
Waterlily Fire
Elisabeth Däumer’s post Context for Waterlily Fire rightly points out the theme of interrelatedness that runs through the Living Archive’s featured poem this month. When I first read “Waterlily Fire,” I was struck even more by the idea of impermanence … Continue reading
The Brilliant Truth, Rukeyser vs. Oprah
Against all sage advice from my colleagues, I’m thinking about proposing a class. I want to call it “True Lies: Untruth in Nonfiction,” a creative writing class that explores the gray area that Elisabeth called attention to in my last … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolom, Adam Gopnick, Adam Novy, Creative Writing, James Frey, Journalism, Modernism, Oprah, Pedagogy, Power, The Book of the Dead, Tim O'Brien, Truth, Werner Herzog
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Synecdoche, West Virginia
This past spring I was attending a Creative Writing Department meeting here at Eastern Michigan University, and one of my colleagues mentioned a list of literary terms that we’re supposed to make sure all of our Intro students are familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged metonymy, Muriel Rukeyser, Pedagogy, Shoshana Wechsler, synecdoche, The Book of the Dead
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Important Poetry
One good thing about the gym that I go to is that people are always leaving behind old issues of Harper’s and The New Yorker, allowing me to cancel both of my subscriptions in exchange for getting them like a … Continue reading