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Yetzirah Conference for Jewish Poetry: view a media archive of public events from the 2023 conference, which was held June 21-23 at UNC-Asheville. I spoke on the Writing Contemporary Midrash panel with Dan Bellm, Sally Rosen Kindred, Sharon Dolin, Heather Altfeld, and Nomi Stone, and gave a reading with Rodger Kamenetz, Aviya Kushner, Sam Taylor, and Joanna Fuhrman.
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Category Archives: it just came up in class
Sometimes you want to be able to find a Tweet…
…and maybe show it to your students to make them feel glad they are native speakers, or, if they’re non-native speakers, proud that they have mastered this ridiculously complex aspect of English:
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It Just Came Up in Class, #2
A student observed that the speaker in James Wright’s poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” is experiencing a human need for meaning (i.e., what does it mean to “waste” one’s life) that the … Continue reading
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It Just Came Up in Class, #1
The room my C block class meets in has suddenly acquired a large faux-leather chair that made me think of Sesame Street’s Monsterpiece Theater, which made me think of this American Monster Classics classic:
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