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 Onion
Helping students find inspiration in the ordinary.
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A Place for Us
Student poetry that looks back to move forward.
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Call Me by My Name
Poetry and translanguaging in the multilingual classroom.
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In the Beginning Was the Word and the Word Was Blue
Exploring the blues through poetry and song.
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Art For / From All
What we lose when we lose access to creative writing.
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Polyphony Lit
Teaching the craft of editing from sea level to summit.
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Humanizing Education
A student perspective on AI.
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Why Not Use AI to Do Your Homework?
Writing is a form of thinking.
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Back to School with Sijo
Six teachers expand poetry’s horizons with this Korean form.
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Innovation in the Creative Writing Classroom
A conversation with the 2024 Bechtel Prize winners.
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Moving Mountains with Teaspoons
Accessing memoir through fragments.
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Metaphor as Medicine
Creative nonfiction for pre-med students.
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Mis Antepasados / My Ancestors
Using creative writing to spark language learning.
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Bob Dylan in a Corvette Driven by a Cat … or Something Like That
The gift of a personalized story.
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Flexing Our Rhyming Muscles
Introducing the ghazal.
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The Slowest Writing in the World
We use a needle and thread to learn to write.
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Write Your Own Lord of the Flies with Dyslexia
\/尺⌽┻𝝣 7≠レ尺 ≠⌴乙 レ≠尺⌴ ≠𝞝 ┻冊𝝣 𝞝レ⌽3.
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Recovery Through Writing
Reducing the stigma of mental illness.
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Letters to a Young Teacher
Four creative writing instructors share their wisdom with new educators.
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Early Teaching Diaries of Louise Glück
From the Teachers & Writers Collaborative archive.
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What Is Lost
In praise of listening.
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The Suitcase in the Mirror
Adventures with Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
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On the Importance of Repetition in Poetry
How the poetry of Robert Hayden & the rap music of Drake can encourage close reading.
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AI in the Creative Writing Classroom
A conversation on teaching writing in a ChatGPT world.