Specifically, how do we liberal kids who love grammar respect gender identity when systems like the Associated Press and Webster Dictionary don’t?
Inclusive Language as an English Major [Article]
Work [Poetry]
I had a government job where I didn't know what it was for three months.
Making literature accessible [Article]
There are too many people who think that they are special because they read the classics and that those who don’t are less intelligent.
Traveling [Poetry]
we get everywhere like black mold
Your Fires [Poetry]
Do you remember that fire?
Learning to Learn: The Craft of Literary Theft [Article]
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad; see how they do it. When a carpenter learns his trade, he does so by observing. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Red Leaves [Poetry]
I want to open my heart to the world
Student Teaching: Nuts and Boltz [Non-Fiction]
Miss Hermione Boltz had been an English teacher for forty years. “The Bolt” – that’s what I called her – was a stout woman with a face like a bulldog. She had never married and her dedication to teaching was of a stern, gray cloth like the Puritans of the Salem community.
Someone else’s garden [Poetry]
I look out into his garden every day now while I drink my coffee from his cup and he continues not being around...
Inner Harbor [Poetry]
Water soaked log with clump of bracken trailing behind
