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Swatch Watch, Julianne Hyer

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For Bosnia, Mimi Mendez De Leon

Exile

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Babies In The Snow, Abby Current

Exile

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How To Keep From Freezing, A. Tangredi

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Bodies And Bread, Autumn Stiles

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The Depth Of A Song, Christie Maillet

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First Kiss, Sam Heyman

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Five Hundred Miles To Freedom, Shawn Whites

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Temptation, Ammon Hollister

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The Conspiracy In Your Smile, Caroline Clutterbuck

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Sore Subject, Nicco Pandolfi

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Why Claire Left, Meghan Callahan

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Ode To Arden, Aaron Bennett

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Duty, Daniel Carlson

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Ode To An M&M, Steph Maniaci

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The Animal Bride, Abby Current

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Trees Pantoum, Julianne Hyer

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Life Support, Ammon Hollister

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Necropolis, Maggie Reagan

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Looking Back, Or Re-Visioning: Contemporary American Jewish Poets On “Lot’S Wife”, Anat Koplowitz-Breier

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Although mentioned only twice in Genesis (19:17, 26), Lot’s wife has been a topic of much discussion amongst both traditional and modern commentators and exegetes. The traditional midrashim seek to explain why she chose to disregard the instructions she was given and the nature of her punishment. In doing so, they follow two principal directions, representing her a) negatively as a wicked sinner, a Sodomite who acted as such even before disobeying the divine decree not to look backwards—thus linking her disobedience with her intrinsic character (e.g., curious, greedy, inhospitable, faithless); or b) positively as a loving mother and daughter. …

Assyrian Aesthetics: Recovering The Modern Assyrian Art Of William Daniel (1903-88) And Andre Gvalevich (1911-85), Ryan Nazari

Canterbury Scholars

In response to the lack of scholarly attention to modern Assyrian culture (i.e., mid-20th century to present), this paper creates a conversation between two Assyrian pieces of art––William Daniel’s poem “The Problem” and Andre Gvalevich’s oil painting portrait of William Daniel. In my argument, I show how “The Problem” and the portrait advance themes of loneliness/intimacy based on the aesthetic relationship between the artists and their respective audiences. I first define Peter Balakian’s account of aesthetics in his article “Poetry as Civilization” for my theoretical context. Secondly, I summarize and critique the methodologies of current scholarship that exist on my …

Writing And Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Paisley Rekdal on November 11

Exile Vol. Lxiii, Brittany Morse, Laura Lussier, Allie R. Vugrincic, Alex Parthun, Landon Slangerup, Gabriele Eimontaite, Iryna Klishch, Hadley Nugent, Cassandra Fleming, Kirsten Elmer, Micah Frenkiel, Imani Congdon, Alex Cardarelli, Maeve Quinn, Shameel Mazhar, Kameran Mirblouk, Grace Guilliams

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Coda -- Or -- Now What?, Abriana Jette, Brandi Reissenweber

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

The special issue editors reflect on the issue's contents and offer further suggestions for moving forward.

Cultivating The Cyborg Voice: Technology In The Creative Writing Classroom, Rebecca Valley

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This article takes a critical look at pieces generated from a capstone project in a recent mixed-genre Intro to Creative Writing workshop. It was inspired by an open-ended creative project asking students to use technology to generate unconventional works of fiction, poetry, memoir, and theatre. Writer and educator Rebecca Valley's hope when assigning this project was to encourage students to innovate and step outside their standard forms. But beyond mere innovation of form, students surprised her in their capacity to use technology to hybridize their authorial voices – rather than merely changing the form of their own words, they became …

Centering The Activity Of Writing: Designing Writing Tasks For The Introductory Creative-Writing Classroom, C. Connor Syrewicz

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

In this paper, I argue that writing tasks (assignments, exercises, prompts, activities, etc.) are one of the best tools we have to teach our students how to perform the activity of writing more effectively. Contemporary creative writing instructors tend to be suspicious of writing tasks, and I argue that this suspicion is a largely result of the predominantly “text-centered” view of writing instruction that prioritizes teaching students “textual knowledge” above all else. Following others, I call for placing a much greater pedagogical emphasis upon the process of producing texts, and I argue that this can only be accomplished by centering …

What Do Introductory Students Learn By Creating Shareable Digital Artifacts?, Jill Stukenberg

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

In this critical reflection, an instructor of Introduction to Creative Writing discusses student learning from the study and creation of “sharable digital artifacts”—for example poem films and Instagram poetry. This practice benefits both non-majors and majors as students make gains in specific skills of revision, metaphor making, and image creation. Further, students make gains in threshold concepts of creative writing through the activity of transferring their knowledge across creative writing genres.

Writing Here, Writing Now; Making Sense Of It All: Examining Cultural And Historical Context In The Introductory Creative Writing Class, Oindrila Mukherjee

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Writers are a product of their environment. The time and place in which they live inevitably impact what they write, why they write, and how they write. I assign a brief reflection essay in my Introduction to Creative Writing class which asks students to consider social, historical, and cultural factors that influence the poetry, fiction, or nonfiction they write, either directly or indirectly. It encourages students to identify patterns in their writing, and to reflect on what it means to live in a specific part of the world at a specific time in history. This makes them more aware of …

Grading What We Value: A Conversation For Creative Writing, Erika Luckert, Jason Mccormick

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This essay considers how we might grade creative writing in a way that is better aligned with our values as writers and teachers. The authors, in the form of an active dialogue, reflect on their efforts to develop an alternative grading method, and discuss their experiences putting that method into practice at two different City University of New York (CUNY) colleges. They detail the considerations that informed their “rubric” and its four central values: professionalism, community, exploration, and revision. They also discuss their strategies for putting those values into practice, through collective brainstorming with students, and the development of individualized …

The Craft Of The Unknown: Transnational Texts In The Creative Writing Classroom, Hannah Kroonblawd

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This article addresses the role(s) reading and exemplar texts play in the creative writing classroom, as well as the responsibility taken up by the creative writing instructor as they place particular texts before their students. Focusing on the introductory creative writing classroom and beginning with a general overview of the purpose (university-prescribed or generally implied) of such a space, this article promotes expansive and generous reading practices via transnational texts. Using cosmopolitanism as an anchor, and concluding with a list of practical in-print and online resources, this article asks how creative writers learn to make meaning, both for others and …