22 October 2008

What Is True and Right for This Blog: A Question

As for myself, I'm delighted to be a blogger at last, like so many of my friends. However, I do feel a certain constraint in my position here, as the instructor in the creative writing class. Like someone might be looking to me for an answer. Or a question, a really good question.

In fact, these days most of the conversation in my in box and in my outbox has to do with politics. And politics, I've come to believe, is irrelevant and possibly deleterious to the job of instructing.

On the other hand, every half-wit poet knows to quote Williams on this topic....

“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

(From William Carlos Williams’ Asphodel That Greeny Flower.)

So here's a question: 

Have you ever read a book, story or poem that saved your life?

7 comments:

S. Merrill said...

Neat bit there with the varying font sizes. I didn't know you could do that. Nice creative use of formatting.

A Quinlan said...

Yes, we're learning all the time about this newfangled glogging invention....

Lacey said...

I really like this post- and the question, especially.


Sidebar: what are the assignments for our next class? I see in the syllabus that we're to submit our short story (6 pages), but did anything else come up? (I asked a peer contact from our class, but they unfortunately were also absent. Oopsie.) Thank you so much!

Dan said...

Professor, I have a question that would be great if you could contact hopefully soon. For tonights class I have written a bit to a story that is approximately 5 pages. However, this is the story I want to use for my 10 page paper. Are the papers allowed to be the same? If not, please let me know so I can start on a new paper.

A Quinlan said...

That's the only assignment, Lacey. Plus we were reading through several of your classmate's stories and will be talking about them in class today....

Blair's Blog said...

It's funny that you bring that up. I haven't read that much since high school and I actually sat down and read the whole Harry Potter series in three and a half months. It's hard for me to believe that I became so addicted to it. All of my free time was spent reading those books.

I swore to myself I would never actually read them. It wasn't until Professor Martin's Intro to Children's Lit class that I took interest. Mostly because the first book was a class assignment! Reading that series changed my life. It brought me back into reading. I haven't read to much lately because of student teaching, but hopefully when the semster is over I'll start again.

That was a great question professor. I honestly never thought about it until now.

Dan said...

Professor, I have been presented problem with class on 10/30/08. besides my normal job, i work as a securtiy guard for my community, I have to work this goosey-night(mischief night). I will be working from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. I If it would make a difference I could attend class,however, I would have to leave by 6:45. I am very sorry, that I will be missing the class. If it is imperitave that I attend for 45 minutes please let me know.