write a villanelle aubade before the sun rises—write the screams of your alarm clock in trochaic hexameter—not hexamater, even if you curse waking write a sestina on being on time stanza one: work stanza two: meetings stanza three: more meetings…
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Short Story: The Making of A Poet
I have said before that prompts are not just classroom conveniences. Read my short story, “The Making of a Poet”, in the current issue of The Prompt Literary Magazine to see what I did with one.
Short-short: Cleaving
I was born in a slaughterhouse. I cannot think these things. Before I was hacked away, I was unaware, part of a collective called a cow. I don’t remember much of it, or know if I can say I ever…
Prompts, Pedagogy, and Composition
Tanya Sasser has written a fascinating and important piece on the question of what truly constitutes student autonomy in first-year composition courses. While her piece is primarily about theory rather than practice, I want to discuss to one particular element…