This semester, I have started teaching a writing and rhetoric class (thrilling! surprising! edifying! terrifying!) to first-year college students at my university. Though we aren’t writing poems in the class, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on my own poetry writing process because no matter what genre you’re writing in, all writing has something in… Read More 13 Ways to Revise a Poem
Well, many of us are waiting for tomorrow with…bated breath?…to hear 45’s new Supreme Court nominee. It sound like it’s going to be a decision between bad, terrible, and horrifying. You may have seen Ms. Magazine‘s newly-revived “Daring to Remember” series to which people are submitting their stories of what it was like to have… Read More Links & Politics: July 2018 Edition
Shelter (noun): A shielded or safe condition, protection. A place giving temporary protection from weather or danger. Shelter (verb): To protect or shield from something harmful. To prevent someone from having to do something difficult or unpleasant. 45 has been in power for over a year and a half. Why? What kinds of shelters have… Read More Call for Poetry Submissions: Shelter
Freesia McKee 