November 02, 2017
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision/revising teaching, specifically of the latest post on process. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
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In the spirit of teaching the writing process, I've been having weekly meetings with my students, individually, in office hours. In a way I am doing this because of Margot Livesey, who made ...
October 30, 2017
Alessandra Lynch
P.S. Assault
1.
It took seconds for him
to push me down then he was done—
I was supine. Perpendicular, the tree. That night
we made a kind of staggering diagram in the parking lot.
How had he risen from me? Jerked out, rolled
off.
Crude knuckles scuffed by fatigue and dust, the roots
of the tree inches from ...
October 25, 2017
I often hear writers talking about how they are trying to give students readings that make them think, "wow, fiction can do that?" Those same writers often say they started writing themselves when they read something that made them think, "wow, fiction can do that?" But I find it difficult to square that sentiment with the readings lists that largely assign white American "experimental" writers.
Those ...
October 23, 2017
Molly McCully Brown
Self Portrait as The Other Girl
Sometimes I see lovelier versions of my body going bad: girl sleeping
in the high grass of a winter field. Girl with her fist in her mouth,
gnawing her knuckles to mica. Girl as a a music box whistling weird lullabies,
a well waiting to be filled with water, a safe place for rabbits to be born.
Girl buried in snow. Girl ...
