Teaching Poetry to Stones
As a creative writing teacher, I wage a daily battle against boring poems
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14 min readApr 4, 2021
I love teaching Introduction to Creative Writing. It’s a wonderful triathlon: We start with fiction, then move on to poetry, and lastly we write stories from our lives. And I do my best to persuade students to abandon their hastily selected majors and join the writing program so they can help us…