Category: The Art of Teaching Writing
Articles, essays, editorials, and meditations on the art of teaching writing and T&W’s mission to inspire the imagination.
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The Power of Student Voice
Student journalists defend the LGBTQ+ school community.
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Where Paint and Poetry Collide
An ekphrastic cross-campus exchange.
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If We Look Close Enough There’s Always a Shot
From intuitive photography practice to foundational writing practice.
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Curriculum as a Shield
Classroom reading and strategies that communicate belonging.
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Writing the Immigrant Story
Overcoming adversity narratives in college essay writing.
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Fly Away Home
Why we write, bird by bird.
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Strategies for Linguistic Reassurance
Inclusive communication practices for the classroom.
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Breaking Bad
Smuggling freedom of speech.
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Onomatopoeia for the Sound of a Gun
Reflections on gun violence and teaching writing.
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May I Ask Who’s Calling?
A phone booth writing prompt.
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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 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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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.