May 19, 2016
This is the fourth and last in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The second is here. The third is here.
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In Part 3, I finally got around to the big question: whether the typical workshop actually holds up and encourages the (white, straight, male, etc) power structures in real life, and whether that on its own is a disservice to our students. I’m not sure the ...
May 09, 2016
This is the third in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The second is here. The fourth is here.
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In part 2, I started to discuss how the workshop has some interesting similarities to the minority experience of real life, wherein a person is forced to listen to other people define for her what her story is.
Ostensibly this decentering can be a way of prioritizing ...
May 05, 2016
Jenny Xie's poem, "Hard-Wired," from the Summer 2016 issue, is featured on Poetry Daily today (5/5)!
Read the poem here: ...
April 29, 2016
This is the second in a series of posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The third is here. The fourth is here.
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As we saw in Part 1, the workshop decenters the voice of the author/workshopee. We also went over various ways in which this may actually be helpful to “finding your voice,” that inhabiting your aesthetic as you discuss works in progress and imagine an ideal finished ...
