Write about a powerful moment in your childhood, a time when you felt seen, heard, acknowledged and powerful, for exactly who you were. This was the ten-minute writing prompt a few weeks ago in my Writing for Children and Young Adults class. Memories conjured themselves up around the room. A boy known as the Fat Kid … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Derek Sheffield
This fall I’m teaching a class on identity and race and creative writers. Last week’s assignment was to choose an author from the wonderful anthology A Good Time for the Truth, someone influential to you personally, and write about why. One of my African students, in a short, beautiful paper, wrote of the importance of reminding … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Derek Walcott
This one goes out to all those who keep the world humming. To the servers and mechanics and plumbers and caterers and farmers and housecleaners and personal care attendants and orderlies and shift workers and convenience store clerks and landscapers and migrant workers and everyone else publicly championed and secretly scorned by those in power. We … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Bob Hicok
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