December 2011
7 posts
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Major English Writers: The Beginning
The beginning was nothing more than a huge…gorgeous…all-consuming…
Perhaps I’m not being clear enough when I say “ “. By “ ” I mean the word “blank” and by that, I mean “the absence of knowledge about what the class was supposed to be about, why I was taking it (it being a major requirement does NOT count) and, dare I...
Canterbury Tales: A Modern Adaptation
The maxi taxi pulls up beside the street curb, music thumping loudly, the bass pushing against her eardrums unpleasantly. The door slides open.
Hello there young miss.
She doesn’t smile, too serious to bother with formalities even at this age. The mud-skinned man gives a toothy grin before moving out of the doorway. She holds onto her mother’s hand as she is helped up onto the huge platform that...
Poetry: Everything but the kitchen sink
Poetry.
Poetry, poetry, poetry.
What to do with poetry.
Anyone who knows anything about me will agree: poetry and I are not the best of friends. Indeed, I doubt we could even be called friends by most. We started off pretty close, back before poetry became a required text in nearly every English class. At that point, after the way in which my appreciation of what poetry has to offer was...
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