Another Creative Writing Myth Debunked

Stories and Poems Were Written the Way We Read Them This isn’t a myth we teach, which is one reason I didn’t included it with my previous post: 5 Creative Writing Myths Debunked. Instead, it is one I find a lot of students have when they come to my class. Maybe we all have it, butContinue reading “Another Creative Writing Myth Debunked”

New Year’s Resolution: A New Book of Poems

This title is a little misleading. Last year one of my resolutions was to finish a book of poems on the Mississippi artist Walter Anderson. As is so often the case, it didn’t quite work out the way I planned. It worked out better. While I didn’t finish the manuscript of “Barrier Island Suite,” IContinue reading “New Year’s Resolution: A New Book of Poems”