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Here’s a sentence I’ll be quoting forever when my students complain that I make them memorize poems: One poem per week…how difficult can that be? At 32 poems, Deborah Ager’s agitating for September to be “Memorize Poetry Month,” with participants … Continue reading →

The 4-year-old showed a keen grasp of linguistics / poetic language this weekend: The Little Man has been out of his mind with anticipation this weekend, and also from the heat.  As a result, he’s been spending some time in … Continue reading →

We don’t have a birth certificate for the Little Man. Obviously we are terrible parents, but the fact of the matter is, in Georgia you have to wait X number of weeks after the birth of your child to send … Continue reading →

It can’t possibly be good that, while listening to Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero” talk, I responded to a blog comment w/in about a minute, caught up on some blog feeds, and since both my e-mail accounts are up and set … Continue reading →

From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed: Policies that allow students to try out courses and drop them by a certain deadline are a time-honored way for colleges to encourage students to sign up for classes they’re not sure about or … Continue reading →

This week’s post at Bookslut is a treat: An interview with Jean-Paul Pecqueur, whose book of poems, The Case Against Happiness, came out in November. What did happiness ever do to you? Why prosecute a case against it? It eluded … Continue reading →

My review of Glean is in this month’s Bookslut: Prior to Joshua Kryah’s first book of poems, Glean, only one poet in the language had thought to include both “purblind” and “unbloom” in a single work. But Kryah’s opening poem, … Continue reading →

Back when I was a Brittain fellow at Georgia Tech, I was struck by the fact that students had full access to a faculty member’s grading history.  As I recall, you could look at the overall distribution of grades, but … Continue reading →

Longtime Salt-Box readers may have noticed that my archives haven’t yet made it over to the new WordPress version.  I’m still not quite sure what I think about that. But I do like to provide a service to the people … Continue reading →