Recent posts about what I’m writing, reading, or just generally doing in life.

How I wrote “Cyanistes caeruleus”
For this blog post, I wanted to talk a bit more about my writing process, since I wrote this poem last semester and I kept some notes about how I wrote it.
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When writing begets writing
As I write this blog, I sort of understand the impulse to write so much lead-in. I’ve shared the big news: now where do I go from here?
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I used to write so much
Every semester I try to do the assignments along with my students partly as a way for me to keep up my own writing practice (I write things I turn in for my classes sometimes), and partly to experience for myself what my students experience when I walk them through a multi-stage writing prompt, or…
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The uncomfortable middle
It takes me a long time to feel comfortable in a new space, so any trip shorter than a few weeks always feels more exhausting than I expect it to be, even if I’m visiting a place I had been before.
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