Photos Like Sonnets

“Swiss-born artist Rudy Burckhardt put poets on film and made photos work like sonnets.” Check out this article on the only photographer the New York School of Poets considered one of their own. This marriage of poem and photo, or photo as poem, poem as photo, brings us full circle, from writing with photographs to [...]

Final Evaluation Conference

POETRY PORTFOLIOS Just a reminder, you need to hand me a PAPER version of your poetry portfolio by 5:00 p.m. this Friday (the 9th). Remember to include a narrative reflection (you can also, of course do that as hypertext on your blog) and a reading-as-a-writer piece as well as all of the regular assignments. FINAL [...]

A Poem by Robert Haas

From Alex, Robert Haas’s “Heroic Simile” (He is the 2008 Pulitzer winner) Please share the poems (and stories and essays, of course) you come across during your writerly wanderings. How about compiling a collaborative list of must-reads for the summer?

How We Became Writers

Here’s a blog where writers can submit pieces about the process of becoming a writer.

Another Opportunity. This one on the radio…

As Vermont Edition host, I spend each day exploring Vermont’s unique character – as well as its challenges. Now it’s your turn! This month, VPR is inviting you to take a turn at the microphone and tell us what you think about living in Vermont. What do you love about Vermont – and what are [...]

An Email I Received Today: What do you think?

Are you interested? Dear Professor Ganley: As the editor of Common Ties, a new citizen journalism website gaining attention among college students in particular, I thought you may be interested in encouraging your students to participate. Writers answer any or all of our 20 Questions, and we pair our favorites with art into what we [...]

For Fiction Writers

I have created a new menu item on the lefthand sidebar: “For Fiction Writers” with links to some helpful sites. Please add via comments! What are your favorite online fiction sites? Also, I have listed all of your presentation dates up on the presentation tab.

Updates–Fiction Syllabus Online

You can now find UNIT THREE  in the menu above, including examples from your tutors terrific. Please make sure you read through the page and let me know if you have any questions. Also, I have steadily been adding to our Places Readers Go list on the upper left sidebar. Please add more sites in [...]

Syllabus Update

I’ve added the reading for Thursday, Tuesday and next Wednesday to the unit overview. Make sure you consult the unit plan itself for details. Also, I will be giving you a fun assignment over break having to do with stranger studies spun into 200-word flash fictions, and some reading. I’ll post the fiction syllabus next [...]

Link to the Blog Conversation with Filmmaker John Bresland and How-to for the

If you’re interested in reading the discussion Abishek had with  The Seinfeld Analog filmmaker, John Bresland, over J-term,  check out his post. For those of you thinking about creating a hypertext piece on your blog, you might want to explore the resources mentioned on wikipedia. Look closely, too, at the hypertext pieces I assigned for [...]