“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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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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