In Praise Of The Exclamation Mark!
“Why Read John Milton?”
“What draws me to Milton is the language—those gorgeous, labyrinthine, serpentine sentences which unspool across dozens of enjambed lines.”
“The Exuberant Diversity Of Ukrainian Literature”
“Joseph Conrad is remembered as a Polish writer who he went on to become one of the great masters of the English language. But the author of Heart of Darkness was actually born in a small village near Kyiv, and Ukraine was his home throughout his early years.”
“A Meditation On Exclamation Marks In… Poetry”
Meditation On Teaching Fiction Writing
“I sat in the dark staring at my laptop. I was well into my second hour of watching sword fights on YouTube. I switched between samurai movies, anime, medieval battle scenes, and pirate duels. Two of my students just kept writing about sword fights, and I was trying to be a better teacher. If I […]