A poetics of bewilderment honors debate; it also prepares students to stake their claim to participate fully in a conversation about anything, not sol
I’ve been asked many times to either select or to write (the greatest honor) a poem to read at a wedding or a funeral. My friends request these poems
Over the course of four semesters, the question at the heart of my pedagogy changed. Instead of asking students “What does the olive mean?” I learned
Didion’s genius was to show that the mystery of the psyche is integral to the mysteries of politics and history. The clean and handsome stories we hav
When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather thanfrom our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away fro