Category Archives: Examples

Let’s start with Justin Quinn’s poem in the 22Aug16 issue of The New Yorker. Then, let’s look at haiku.

Here is a PDF of a few pages from David Starkey’s Creative Writing. We will talk about them in class. Consider these general suggestions for writing poems from Wendy Bishop’s Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem. Look at this painting and, … Continue reading →

Here are the stories we will be looking at in class today.

Also from the always excellent Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively, this PDF presents five useful approaches to time in fiction. Start reading in the middle of page 128, under the number four and the heading “Telling Time 3: Duration.” When you finish reading … Continue reading →

Talking about endings without an entire story is really difficult. In groups of three, read through as many of these really short stories (from Jerome Stern’s excellent Microfiction) as you can in 10 minutes or less. Then, consider these questions. … Continue reading →

We will talk about this example of a synthesis essay in class.

This PDF contains more poems for us to talk about during the next few class meetings.

Here are some poems for us to talk about on Monday.

Consider this PDF a reminder of the essentials of point of view. What does it leave out? How does it contrast with the chart in our textbook? Consider as well this PDF. What do its examples suggest about point of … Continue reading →

Here is another useful example of a literacy narrative.