July 21, 2016
Histories of Our Faces
I recently returned home from teaching for two weeks in the Between the Lines program at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in Iowa City. The session in which I taught […]
May 31, 2015
Making (and [the Next]) Generation Part II: Educator Interview with Adam Kaplan
My previous post began a series of posts focusing on teaching, writing, and youth. The new anthology Please Excuse This Poem is the catalyst for this investigation, and I shared poems and reflections from […]
May 30, 2015
Making (and [the Next]) Generation
This March, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick, was published under the imprint of “Viking Books for Young […]
August 9, 2010
The Kids Are All Bright
A favorite teacher of mine tipped me early on that there would be people who would tell you never to write about childhood, especially not from the perspective of a […]