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		<title>consumption, the void, and palahniuk&#8217;s choke</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/07/29/consumption-the-void-and-palahniuks-choke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor is a sex addict. He attends 12-step meetings, not in the hope of recovery but to hook-up with other addicts on the bathroom floor of the community center while the meeting is going on in the room next door. Victor scrapes together a modest income by working at a colonial theme park with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>beware of the jabberwocky!</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/10/28/beware-of-the-jabberwocky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Carroll gave us the his wonderfully nonsensical and heroic poem of the Jabberwocky, but it takes a child to deliver it with such power. Check it out. A wonderful reading. I wish my college students could perform to this level.]]></description>
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		<title>reading ken robinson&#8217;s out of our minds</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/09/14/reading-out-of-our-minds-by-ken-robinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer I read Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson. The cover of the book has been sitting in the &#8220;Good Reads&#8221; (formerly &#8220;Now Reading&#8221;) area of this blog for nearly a year, so I figured I should drop a few thoughts on the book and rotate the cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading elizabeth strout&#8217;s olive kitteridge</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/03/22/reading-elizabeth-strouts-olive-kitteridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my fiction writing class this semester, I selected the 2009 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I hadn&#8217;t read it prior to the class (as I sometimes like to read a book for the first time along with my students), but I quickly found myself immersed in the lives of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an hour with ted kooser on a saturday morning</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/11/07/an-hour-with-ted-kooser-on-a-saturday-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning Aidan (my six year old son) and I sat for an hour together watching Ted Kooser read his poetry to a packed hall at UC Santa Barbara in August of 2005. Kooser has such a gentle and honest style. He helps us notice the simple magnificence that surrounds us all. It was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vase gone gravy boat</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/09/25/vase-gone-gravy-boat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thrown with a slap The heft of cool clay Against stainless steel wheel Etched with concentric circles. Center. Crooked, imbalanced Like the bent rim From a childhood bicycle It thumps with Centrifugal petulance Against cupped and pressing Hands slouched over the work Muscling into form As the whirl of the wheel quickens and flings droplets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slaughterhouse education</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/09/14/slaughterhouse-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wandering in apart from the herd, Unpredictable (dangerous), Spirited and wild-eyed, With steady hand, Outside the lines you go. Corralled into rows, Orderly, controlled, Understanding the boundaries now, Your hand begins to shake. First grade eyes welling with tears. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;He&#8217;ll adjust in time; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;It&#8217;s the most natural thing. You learn helplessness. Managed into form; Artificial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>self-absorbed, 5:00 on a friday afternoon</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/08/30/self-absorbed-500-on-a-friday-afternoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of your own accord Training wheels discarded On the garage floor. With my fingers through my hair I said sure. We hit the black top Lot next door, Knowing the fragility of self&#8211; Esteem and bones. Like that drunken teenager I remember from years ago On his bike by the Taco Bell, I smiled and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading mayers&#8217;(re)writing craft</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/08/11/reading-mayersrewriting-craft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<title>reading the poetry home repair manual by ted kooser</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/05/23/reading-the-poetry-home-repair-manual-by-ted-kooser/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2009/05/23/reading-the-poetry-home-repair-manual-by-ted-kooser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be teaching poetry writing for the first time in the fall, so I need to consider what I&#8217;ll ask the students to read. Beyond a collection of poetry, I wanted a kind of textbook, but not a textbook, if you know what I mean. I&#8217;m thinking about Ted Kooser&#8217;s Poetry Home Repair Manual. It [...]]]></description>
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