As many of you are no doubt aware, I teach creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels, sometimes to high school students, too. I believe that there is a far too significant break between the study of literature and that of writing. We often are forced to pretend that… Read More »Writing a Future?
what once was blackyou turned to whitewith each stroke of chalkleaving its marknot simply on vertical surfacesdepicting curvesand anglesbut the brightness of understanding on mindsclouded with reflections of childhoodand the silliness of the moment the past retreatedinto modern whiteboards calling to youto turn those white linesinto colorsmyriad and brightwhose new… Read More »a life at the board
I see a woman riding a horse through the village. She has incredible concentration as the horse gallops down the narrow street. I can’t help thinking how impressive it is to have such direction, such focus to get to a destination rather than being prepared to get there someday, eventually,… Read More »Riding the Moment
I am a revolutionary pacifist. I believe in the absolute and unmitigated wrongness of conflict and violence and that it should be completely eliminated and dismissed from human society, that it is a thing best left as a reminder of barbaric times in the distant past, not a reflection of… Read More »Stand By Our Troops?
Throughout the ages, we have been confronted with human nature being called sinful, something that we must fight against and confess and be absolved of by supernatural beings or, at other points in history, our leaders, our peers and even our children. We all make mistakes without exception. If ever… Read More »A Culture of Fists
Last night people from all walks of life (mostly of the female persuasion but not, in a word, exclusively so) gathered in Manchester for the latest SheSaysManchester [@shesaysmcr] event, this time on the theme of inclusion. In a time where governments are weaponizing hatred and other forms of nationalism and… Read More »SheSays Include Us