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Summer Writing Website
I had some sophomores tell me recently that they were concerned that the gains they had made as writers this year might be lost if they...

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Jun 1, 20191 min read
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Announcements
(Here is my official return to focusing on So Many Fishes, a collection I am trying to finish by December. Thanks for reading!) I can...

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Jun 1, 20191 min read
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The Hardest Part...
The hardest part of writing is writing. I knew that this blog would challenge me, but why was I so out of my mind that I thought I could...

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May 12, 20191 min read
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Summer Writing!
Impossibly, a student has asked me why we have "Summer Reading" for students but not "Summer Writing." <Insert thunderbolt here> "Great...

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May 12, 20191 min read
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Writing Prompts & Silent Sustained Writing
Writing every day helps to promote a healthy relationship with writing things that you don't have to be married to. Writing every day...

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May 3, 20192 min read
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This is a simple game...
I’ve been teaching Bull Durham off and on for the past 17 years. Usually, as most of us do, I use it as a way of getting my students to...

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May 2, 20192 min read
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Mayday!
So, I've never been a trophy guy, one of those people who always wants to win and thinks that if you don't win you have somehow lost or...

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May 1, 20192 min read
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Spring’s Liminal May
(from the napowrimo prompt: And last but not least, now for our final (but still optional) prompt for this year! Taking a leaf from our...

andrew jeter
Apr 30, 20191 min read
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A Fine Place
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully.) Let’s...

andrew jeter
Apr 29, 20191 min read
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To Write
(from the napowrimo prompt: try your hand at a meta-poem of your own.) When he sits to write about the morning air, the poet voice says...

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Apr 28, 20191 min read
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Mirror, Mirror
(from the napowrimo prompt: “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can pick a line you like and use it...

andrew jeter
Apr 27, 20192 min read
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the clarifying statement
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps...

andrew jeter
Apr 26, 20191 min read
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Sunday's Flock?
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste,...

andrew jeter
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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Dominion & Teacher's Plea
(from the SLCC prompt: write a tricube.) Dominion I walk the dirt road by my tree line Bluejay sights high up from black locust Fox...

andrew jeter
Apr 24, 20191 min read
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Harbinger
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about an animal.) Hey, you! Fat cardinal! Is it really happening? Are you that stoplight red...

andrew jeter
Apr 23, 20191 min read
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Just a Simple Man
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts,...

andrew jeter
Apr 22, 20191 min read
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The Lesson of The Groke
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about a favorite picture book you read when you were younger.) In the long shadow of Midas and...

andrew jeter
Apr 21, 20191 min read
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Saturday
(from NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that “talks.”) Good morning! How did you sleep? Well. I’m going to fill the bird feeders this...

andrew jeter
Apr 20, 20191 min read
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All That is Left
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about forgetting something important.) The neighborhoods I grew up in are gone and the towns they...

andrew jeter
Apr 19, 20191 min read
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The Dearly Departed
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract...

andrew jeter
Apr 18, 20191 min read
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