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Good Soil
Transforming trauma to allow creativity to take root.
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Forbidden Places
A transformative lesson in taking up space.
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Out of Ashes / Creating / the / Atmosphere
Teaching found poetry in the age of attention.
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Living Inside the Questions
Writing about freedom when language is under watch.
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Banned book writing prompts.
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The Things We Carry
A lesson in deep self-reflection and empathy.
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What Are We Made Of?
Exploring the forces that shape us through poetry and science.
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Seeing Before Naming
A phenomenological poetry workshop that turned my classroom into a field of discovery.
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Rewriting Time
A braided narrative practice.
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A Pagoda
Feelings, needs, and cultural identity as the building blocks of storytelling.
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Everybody’s Poetics
A conversation with Dr. Catherine W. Carter.
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Dearest June
Reflections on the early teaching diaries of June Jordan.
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The Lens of Leaving
Teaching Pablo Neruda and Bei Dao.
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Decolonize Your Process
Liberating creative writing from white supremacy culture.
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In Praise of Calmness
Finding resistance in the ordinary.
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The Ethics and Artistics of Generative AI
What I learned using ChatGPT to write an academic paper.
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Banned book writing prompts.
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Beyond the Darkness
Teaching “true crime” memoir as a crime survivor.
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Distillation and Transplantation
Teaching early writers to transform lived experience into fiction.
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Better Brainstorming
Teaching early writers to generate ideas for fiction.
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Liberating Narrative
Teaching in the shadow of the college admissions essay.
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How to Pick a Lock
Rediscovering wonder in the blank page.
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You Must Be Proud
Food-themed narrative writing with Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks.”
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What the Sound Wants to Say
An approach to story and memory through rhythm.
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
Banned book writing prompts.
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Word into Idea
An aleatory exercise for young poets.
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Maus by Art Spiegelman
Banned book writing prompts.
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When the Page Goes White
Coaching “flow” to reluctant writers.
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Embodied Spaces
Reimagining the creative writing classroom for disabled access.
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Banned book writing prompts.