This week, in the midst of grading papers for my own classes, I’ve been invited to guest teach a lesson on poetry in a colleague’s Intro to Lit course. My colleague was very forthright: “I just don’t speak poetry.” So far, she admitted, her main line-of-attack in teaching the unit has been to offer a […]

  Many of us know Gary Snyder in the context in which the upcoming reading at CSU was advertised—a legendary beat poet who read alongside Ginsberg and was immortalized by Jack Kerouac in the Dharma Bums, a poet who also won a Pulitzer prize, who was a finalist twice over for the National Book Critics […]

The strangest aspect to September this year, as school in its inevitable routine renews, is how green is the grass in Colorado. Usually, by late August the grass is sere, yellowing long ahead of the trees whose dark green leaves seem to ignore the fact of the impending season. But this summer’s monsoons have come […]