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Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Book Reviews

Judy Halden-Sullivan - Paradigm Shifts

Lauren DiPaula - Price, Margaret. Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.

William Archibald - Thomas, Douglas and John Seely Brown. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011.

Noam Scheindlin - Vandermeulen, Carl. Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011.

Martin Cockroft - Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. and Bruce Novak. Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change. NY: Teachers College Press, 2011.

Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu

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When unplanned-for testimonies occur in class, how do instructors turn a disruptive moment into a teachable one?

Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Creative writing becomes a vehicle for community outreach in a Writing Center setting, bringing together town and gown.

The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Can writing center administrators prepare student tutors to help transform faculty-student relations? Should they?

Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei

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A department chair dons a hard hat and begins to see her position through the lens of spiritual rebirth and figured worlds—as a portrait of Calvin looks on.

The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing The Efficacy Of Private Texts, Liz Rohan

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Texts written privately often find new contexts, new uses, if writers become mindful of Bakhtin’s notion of “great time.”

Jaepl, Vol. 18, Winter 2012-2013, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters

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Essays

Douglas Hesse - Writing and Time, Time and the Essay

Liz Rohan - The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing the Efficacy of Private Texts

Christy I. Wenger - Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way to Mindfulness and Balance in Embodied Writing Pedagogy

Lavinia Hirsu - Reflections on Accidental Testimonies and Spectacular Witnesses

Heather Trahan - Queers, Cupid's Arrow, and Contradictions in the Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis

Shelly Sanders & B. Cole Bennett - Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy

Out of the Box

Richard Leo Enos - Outside the Box and onto a Dusty Trail

SPECIAL SECTION: Administration, Ethics, and Spirituality

Paul …

Queers, Cupid’S Arrow, And Contradictions In The Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis, Heather Trahan

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“Third generation” activity theory can help instructors support and also deal with gay romance in the classroom.

Even Administrators Have Souls, Paul Puccio

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Faculty have a critical role to play if they want administrators to be more than unilateral decision-makers.

The White Hydrangeas, Larry O'Brien

Bryant Literary Review

You notice them first while getting the mail,

in the airless heat of an August noon,

Life On Mars, Eileen Russell

Bryant Literary Review

Chapter One

I knew I'd barely survive an eight-hundred mile road trip with Bill and Fran, from the tip of Florida's peninsula

Come To Bed, Geoffrey Jarok

Bryant Literary Review

It's a sad day for woman.

She sees dreams,

Like a debtor looks at bills.

Go Gentle Into That Good Night (After Dylan Thomas), Bart Edelman

Bryant Literary Review

Please, please, go gentle into that good night,

Old age should never burn at close of day;

The Swings On Crane Avenue, Parker Williams

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He loved them,

would sit there for hours and dream about flying,

Apple For Your Thought Processes?, Eric Cisternelli

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Like hundreds of flies to a carcass

Sacrificing money at an altar,

C. Bowen, Plumber, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I like this guy

before we even meet.

He's the only one

Moon Rise, John P. Kristofco

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when colors and their implications fade

into the twist of trees,

The Referee, David Alan Goldstein

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Martin Abramson believed that very small, innocuous and seemly trivial acts were the key

Miss Mercy, C. Sanchez-Garcia

Bryant Literary Review

"How does it feel, where you are?"

"It's okay. You keep it cool in here."

Shells, Barbara Mackay

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today I walk a sullen beach

its sand a deep gray

had it once been white

Weather Wins, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

It always does. Big blow

from the latest tornado?

That's just nature clearing

Who Is We?, Kevin Mcintosh

Bryant Literary Review

Patrick Lynch is passing back personal narratives to his second period. He used to call them memoirs,

Junior Munson Does The Long Haul, Elton Glaser

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I like to start my mornings

Sunnyside up at a truckstop,

What Jupiter Knows, Wendy Smith-Stenhouse

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Thing is... Nobody cares less about me missing the Junior Spring Fling than me. But Blaine, with his beer stink and lolling eyeballs,

Fountain, Josh Wardrip

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In those days I would take the #3 downtown where I spent my afternoons having lunch at one of the little diners

My Son Dreams That, As We Fished For Pumpkinseeds, A Shark Ate Me, Charles Harper Webb

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Did I hook the shark, and it yanked me in?

Did it leap, and pluck me off the pier?

Small Blue Butterflies, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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On a walk around the lake

I pause to watch three small blue butterflies

The Rabbit Who Loved Peas, Rebecca Saunders

English Faculty Publication Series

Ned loves growing peas in his garden, and Rudy the Rabbit loves peas too. Rudy manages to hide from Ned and gobble all the peas he wants, until one day . . .

Readers’ Theater for children is a delightful way to involve children in performance while improving their reading skills. Because no memorization is required, children are free to focus on bringing the text to life through their voices

Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Regarding Inhuman Fate, Harry Leeds, Georgy Ivanov

Birmingham Poetry Review

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