The other night at Busboys & Poets was the release party for The Way We See It, the Capitol Letters student anthology I edited and have written relentlessly about here to over the last eight months. I’m pleased to report that it went tremendously (likely because I had no hand whatsoever in the planning of [...]
I’ve been waiting for about a week to post this, but PIK Ryan Call has put together–with the help of Gene Morgan’s “Twitter feed press”–RESEARCH-BASED ARGUMENT ESSAY: COLLAGE TEXTS, an online chapbook of poems constructed entirely (and anonymously) from students’ essays for Call’s composition courses at the University of Houston. The result is something familiar [...]
Very quickly dispatching information here.
First, the look. After about a month, I quickly began to feel like the previous look of the blog wasn’t doing me as many favors as I’d hoped, so I switched to this new funk, which fits the aim a bit more effectively, and will hopefully carry through for a while.
Second, [...]
Anyone who remotely knows me knows that since last September, as the “book guy” for Capitol Letters Writing Center, I’ve been working closely with Frazier O’Leary’s AP literature class at Cardozo High on The Way We See It: Complete Coverage of the Nation’s Capital from the Inside Out, an anthology of fiction, poems, essays, and [...]