This month, I’m talking all about Aristotle’s 8 Rules of storytelling from his masterwork on dramatic writing, the Poetics. The Poetics is the LBD of …
Avoiding the Arbitrary (Part I): Beginnings and Endings
The Work of Beautiful Writing
This week, I got to teach one of my favorite poems, “Adam’s Curse” by William Butler Yeats. In the first stanza, the narrator complains to …
Lessons from Lyric: Economy and Word Choice
It’s one of my favorite times of the year. I’m preparing to teach a module on lyric poetry for my college freshmen this week. We’ve just …