LitReactor Class Filling Fast
Over half full. Getting pumped for this. Looking forward to meeting my students.
Creative Writing Essentials Wraps.
Eight weeks ago I was thrown into the deep end of a course I’d never taught before (not exactly) in a community college I’d never been to, with seven students I didn’t know. We met every Wednesday night between 6 and 8 pm, after work, hungry and tired, in an empty boardroom somewhere in the…
Helen Koukoutsis: “Teaching Mahmoud Darwish…” at Eureka Street
Check out this poem by my friend, the poet Helen Koukoutsis. It’s about the great Darwish, yes, but so much more: how trying to teach the unteachable pays the rent and scalds the soul.