In Robert Talbert’s blog post on The Higher Chronicle “The Social Element of learning about effective teaching strategies,” he discusses the effectiveness of one-on-one interactions with those who use effective teaching practices in the classroom and the importance of…
In her article, “‘Warming’ the Climate for Learning” Sandra Allen discusses the importance of the positive interactions between instructors and students. She explores three key areas to “warm” the learning climate, “(1) the teacher’s praise or approval; (2) enthusiasm…
In the essay “Why Publishing a Chapbook Makes Sense,” Jeannine Hall Gailey includes a suggestion by Kelli Russell Agodon on creating chapbooks, “My advice would be to focus your chapbook on one subject, theme, or story. The best chapbooks…
You are the author of the two books of poetry, Love Songs from Psychopaths (1997) and Fairy Tales Gone Awry (2006), as well as the chapbook Tender Bonbons (2014), the chapbook written in celebration of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons…
Your first chapbook, How to Leave a Farmhouse, was just released from Porkbelly Press and you have degrees in creative writing from Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Talk about your experiences as a student of…
You are the author of the chapbook Portage (Sundress Publications, 2014). What did you learn during your MFA studies about the chapbook? As excellent as GMU’s program was, I didn’t learn very much about the chapbook in my classes…
You are the author of the chapbook Fun Times in the Wild (Unknown Press) and Or Something Like That (Unknown Press), both published by your press, as well as the two novels, the book F 250 (Piscataway House, 2014), Tollbooth (Piscataway House, 2013), a full-length…
You are the author of the chapbook All of Her Leaves (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and have a MFA from the University of Nebraska. What did you learn during your MFA studies and undergrad degree about the chapbook? I…
I’m a little in love with the place you invoke in Mera Bharat, your new chapbook from Red Dashboard. I know you traveled to India and recently lived there for two years. Did you set out to write this…
In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux write, “Each of us has our own relationship to death, a relationship that starts in childhood with our first awareness of it. And throughout our lives, we experience the grief…