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I’ll be teaching poetry writing for the first time in the fall, so I need to consider what I’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’m thinking about Ted Kooser’s Poetry Home Repair Manual. It [...]

Tuesday we had our “PictureThis” event where creative writing students from both poetry and fiction classes  Program Covercame together to read their work for an audience of about eighty people–fellow students, family members, teachers, and friends. They read in response to photographs (most taken by the students themselves) and in response to “obstructions” given them [...]

“Picture This” is a student literary event where MVCC creative writers of fiction and poetry get together to read work original works they have composed in response to photographs they have created. Below is the gallery of images mostly submitted by the students for this project. (There are a few other images mixed in.) Students, [...]