I wrote this week’s poems with the idea of learning in mind.
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How I wrote this week’s poems: Objects and opposites
This tricky love of museums is part of what I’ve been working through in my poems this week.
How I wrote this week’s poems: Lines and spacing
This week, I challenged myself to avoid using my go-to starters (sonnets and golden shovels) and also tried to play with space on the page.
How I wrote this week’s poems: Reliable reminders
This week, many of the poems I had drafted were based on some reliable prompts I use to help me get started.
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.
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?
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 set draft deadlines at certain intervals.
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.
Hopelessness
Near the end of the first-year composition class I taught this summer, one of my students asked, How do you pay attention to the news without feeling totally hopeless?
Repeated Reread: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
I reread Fangirl when I just couldn’t look at a screen anymore. Whenever I needed it, I immersed myself in Cath’s highs and lows as a way to distract from my own creative angst.
Caroliena Cabada 