News, Updates, and a Little Havoc

Hello! Happy Summer! It’s the end of July, which means… 1) Going outside in Austin in the afternoon = recreating the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 2) The start of the new school year is close enough that it can no longer be ignored, so I’m desperately trying to finish all the books I’veContinue reading “News, Updates, and a Little Havoc”

Making the Most of a Mess: 5 Book Title Found Poems

If there is a book lover out there who can pack a single box of books without opening, smelling, reading, or contemplating at least one, I haven’t met them yet. Then again, there are a lot of book lovers out there I haven’t met because we all spend so much time alone reading books. DidContinue reading “Making the Most of a Mess: 5 Book Title Found Poems”

Vision+Voice 2019 / Why Poetry Matters

I almost didn’t make it to the Vision+Voice reception this year. Teaching all day + Writing Club + grading + trying to perfect that PowerPoint for Monday, and suddenly it was 6:30PM, and I was still in my classroom, and the Vision+Voice reception was starting across town in half an hour. For a quarter ofContinue reading “Vision+Voice 2019 / Why Poetry Matters”