Sept/Oct 2011: Teaching Writing

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"Landmarks 7" (detail)Featured Artist: Sophia Ainslie

  • October Cover
  • Editor’s Note
  • “In the Cancer Room”
  • Talking Art

 

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Why I Teach—and Write

Editor's Note by Martha Nichols

I teach for the same reasons I write: to connect with an audience

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

 

Why I Write

Why I Write : Will Write for Candy by Richard Price
Why I Write, Grief : September 11: Why I Write by Ken Hertz
Why I Write, Family Stories, Letters and Journals : My Mother Said: “Write Everything” by Sharon Tosto Esker
Why I Write, Photography, Journalism : Jetlag: A Love Story by J.p. Lawrence
Why I Write, Cancer Workshop : Why I Can’t Stop Writing by Wichita Sims
Why I Write, Authors : Me and F. Scott Against the World by Jay Owens
Why I Write, Music, Travel : Why I Don’t Sing by Danielle Martínez

Theme for this Issue

Teaching, Illness : In the Cancer Room by Autumn Stephens
Teaching, Book Reviews : Great Writers and Bad Teaching by Michael Milburn
Teaching : Can Good Writing Be Taught? by Kate Geiselman
Teaching : Why Creative Writers Need Tough Grades by Kelcey Parker
Teaching : Did I Help My Students—or Not? by Emily Cicchini
Teaching : The Ache of Writing by Ann Lightcap Bruno
Teaching : What Writing Program Critics Don’t Know by Theresa Williams

Columns

Nature, Yawping Wild : A Nature Writer Lets the Outside In by Steven Lewis
Talking Art, Graphic Arts, Illness : Portraits of the Interior by Judith A. Ross
Teaching, Nothing but the Toth : The Search for a Snapper by Emily Toth

Poetry

Cancer Workshop : Susan English Fetcho: Poem by Susan English Fetcho
Cancer Workshop : Patricia Reynolds Sørbye: Poem by Patricia Reynolds Sørbye
Featured Poetry : Jeanie Tomasko: Four Poems by Jeanie Tomasko
Featured Poetry : Steve Dalachinsky: Poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Personal Stories

Teaching, Memoir, Travel : Would You Ever Take a Bullet for Someone? by Jon Wolfman
Writer's Life : My Favorite Writing Workshop by Nikki Stern
Memoir, Illness, Cancer Workshop : My Cancer Plays by Gail Coufal
Memoir, Journalism : A Peacenik Reporter Gets It Wrong by Jeremiah Horrigan

Interviews

Teaching, Featured Interview : Natalie Goldberg: “I Don’t Believe in Writer’s Block” by Judith A. Ross

Trends and Reviews

Book Reviews, Music, Sex : Don’t Take Away My David Bowie by Martha Nichols
Screen Time, Journalism : Errol Morris Takes on the Tabloids by Fran Cronin