![]() $30,000 grant to teach creative workshops to senior populations and gather oil impact stories in North Dakota oil patch. The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, Florida. Each day in a creative writing classroom is full of incredible revelations and wonderful surprises-I feel very lucky that I get to do this work. I see my job as a teacher of creative writing to provide enough good models of literature to inspire the writers, then to provide a strong framework-structure, guidance, craft principles, deadlines, feedback-to allow the students to learn the best practices of working writers so that they will flourish in their own imaginations. This is especially true when teaching creative writing, because so much of what students write for my classes is informed either directly by personal experience or, at the very least, by personal observation. One must plan, practice and prepare, of course, but what happens in the classroom is often unexpected and surprising, because it involves the abundance of ideas, energy, and experiences that the students bring to the classroom. ![]() Teaching, like music, is an improvisational act. I’m still working that question out in my own creative work. So, my life as a writer also developed out of music, or perhaps out of loss, or maybe out of fire. I hope, in the years since then, the writing has evolved to something more masterful, resonant, and evocative. The writing began as scribbles in a notebook, song lyrics, rants, and bad poems. During this time, while we were stalled out in Fargo figuring out how to replace our lost gear, I began to write out of an intense feeling of loss. All of our gear burned, and we were left with no equipment to play music. Many years ago-early in my life as a traveling musician-my band lost everything in a truck fire. For many years, from the late-seventies forward, I was a road musician, and I continue to perform as a singer-songwriter. Music is the starting point for much of my life in art, and it also informs my teaching practices. ![]() Travel Writing, Experiential Writing, Writing of the Environmental Imagination About My Teaching & How I Came To Teach Intermedia Arts, Video Essays, Performance PoetryĬreative Nonfiction, Memoir, Research Nonfiction, Reportageįiction, from novel-length narratives to flash fictions Undergraduate courses in Creative Writing and graduate courses in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and EnvironmentĮnglish 207: Introduction to Creative WritingĮnglish 304: Undergraduate Fiction WorkshopĮnglish 305: Undergraduate Nonfiction WorkshopĮnglish 306: Undergraduate Poetry WorkshopĮnglish 496: Study Abroad-Ireland: A Traveling Writers’ WorkshopĮnglish 555: Graduate Nonfiction WorkshopĮnglish 557: Studies in Creative Writing (Travel Writing)Įnglish 559: Creative Writing Teaching PracticumĮnglish 560: Environmental Field ExperienceĮnglish 589: Supervised Practicum in Literary Editing Degrees
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