To attempt an answer, I return to Ruefle, who quotes her friend responding to this epistemology of doubt: “The difference between myself and a student
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
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