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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Remix the Plan, Return to the Purpose
An excerpt from The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison.
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Some Victorious Answer to Everything
Bill Murray and Ferlinghetti’s “Dog” as an invitation to write new poetry.
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Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose
2022 Bechtel Prize Winner Shilpi Suneja’s students make language their subject.
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Writing from the Other End
Creative growth with Kostas Anagnopoulos.
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Reading and Critiquing Trauma Memoirs
A trauma-informed approach to workshopping memoir writing.
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Serious Lightness
A profile of teaching artist Joanna Fuhrman.
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The B+ Student
On balance, brevity, and powder days.
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Giving the Writer Permission to Play
An essay in four acts.
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Because Your Liberation is Bound Up with Mine
Introducing the 2021 PEN America / L’Engle Rahman Mentorship Prize recipients.
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Superheroic Delight Songs
A poetry-inspired mural at Lea Elementary in West Philly.
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Breaking Through with Poetry
The teacher as writer.
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QuaranTeen
Video Project
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Embracing Silliness
826NYC’s Transition to Online Learning
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Writing a Contrapuntal Poem
Tools Gathered from Even-Odd Project Elevators
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The Stories We Save May Include Our Own
Excerpt from Iron Magazine
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T&W CHATSPACE
An Interview with Glynn Pogue
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My Self-Portrait / My Secret Self-Portrait
Lesson by Sheila Maldonado as told to Azka Anwar
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Building a Queer Canon
Reading lists and resources for teaching LGBTQ+ texts in the classroom.
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Writing Our Names
The names we are given, the names we give ourselves, the names society gives us, are powerful kindling for poetry.
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Life, Death, and Twine
Students use a program called Twine to find new possibilities to writing non-linear and multi-linear pieces.
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Black Nikes in Red Weather
A Lesson Plan for “Dream Poems”
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How a Spider Web Can Untangle Memoir Writing
The spider web as a helpful tool to map out personal narrative.
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Teaching Whitman in High School
Connecting to the spiritual through “Song of Myself” and writing poetry.
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Making Sense of It All
High School Poetry in the Age of Zoom