“Are you too deeply Occupied to say if my Verse is alive?” Emily Dickinson wrote with some fervor to the editor of a daily publication. “The Mind is so near itself—it cannot see, distinctly—and I have none to ask—” Writing is best understood as a static text coming into contact with a dynamic mind. When… Continue reading A Ghost in the Coffee Shop: A Method for Peer Review
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Written by M. Anthony C.
Of a Writing Process
I tell my students that writing is an art, not a science, that there is no law governing how to write a masterpiece. Whatever works for each as an individual writer should be adhered to. Just how each walks with their chosen stride, there is no need to modify our gait to cohabitate the footprints… Continue reading Of a Writing Process
Poetry is Delicious
When I hear someone say that they don’t like poetry, whether it’s my freshman students sitting down for my lesson on haiku and the writing process or my sexagenarian neighbor walking her dog down the sidewalk, I am stunned. This isn’t because this is a response I am not expecting, but because I can feel… Continue reading Poetry is Delicious
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