Willie Edward Taylor Carver (Stonewall Award Winner 2024) published an essay with us about how he got his start as a writer and teacher.

"This is How I Want to Die"

Our own Erika Grumet recently had 2 of their essays included on a rhetoric syllabus. The assignment was: "How do you define good writing."

2 Essays Featured on a University Rhetoric Syllabus at UT Austin

I read the story "Reunion" by John Cheever with my new students at the start of nearly every class I've ever taught--literature or writing-composition. Why does this story have such a hold over me? Let's find out...

"Reunion" by John Cheever

Two college bros pushed an unoccupied wheelchair down a flight of stairs, breaking it. Why did they do that? And what are the repercussions--for them? and for the person whose chair, no, whose means of transportation it was?

Of Fauxpologies and Wheelchairs

A beautiful poem about love and politics in China translated by Huiwen Shi. Wen's translation is playful and yet painful, like an epigram of Catullus.

2 Rules of Writing

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