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Dec 22 Last Post of 2011
AS YOU HAVE NO doubt noticed, I\'ve pretty much stopped posting to TWR. Between my regular column for..

Apr 19 Three Cups of Tease? Greg Mortenson and the F..
\"It\'s a beautiful story, and it\'s a lie.\" That\'s Jon Krakauer, noted author of Into the Wild and In..

Apr 15 National Poetry Month: Your Questions Answere..
Here we are, midway through National Poetry Month, and so far, no posts from me about the best 30 d..

Mar 11 The 10 Greatest Poets Project: The Postmortem
As surprised I was by the overwhelming response to my call for lists of the 10 greatest poets, I was..

Mar 5 The 10 Greatest Poets: My List
Who would have thought so many people would have so many strong opinions about poetic greatness? Th..

Feb 11 The Top 10 Poets: Who are the Greatest?
Anthony Tommasini\'s fascinating project to identify the ten greatest composers has generated a shoc..

Feb 3 Are Today\'s Students Really Getting Worse?
SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES STARTED last week at the University of San Francisco , where I am on the fa..

Jan 26 Grading President Obama\'s State of the Union ..
FOR THE PAST FEW years, I\'ve had great fun \"grading\" the texts of major political speeches using the..

Jan 14 Palin, Crosshairs, and Semiotics
CAN ONE DRAW A line between Sarah Palin\'s Crosshairs map and the shooting of twenty people in Tucso..

Jan 11 Two Riveting Articles on Parenting
SUNDAY\'S OP-ED PIECE in The Wall Street Journal , \" Why Chinese Mothers are Superior \" by Amy Chua, ..

Jan 7 The N-Word, Huck Finn, and You
From my City Brights column of January 5, 2011 \"Nigger\" appears 219 times in The Adventures of Huckl..

Jan 2 Work Is Love Made Visible: A Review by Scott ..
Our best and most loyal guest poster, Scott Andrews, is back with the inaugural post of 2011. ..

Dec 16 What Makes A Child Creative?
I WAS SURPRISED TO learn that one of the measurements for admitting students to gifted and talented..

Dec 11 Is Hip-Hop Poetry?
City Brights FOR TWR\'S 150TH POST, I double-dip. I know, it\'s so lazy. But, I didn\'t want to detrac..

Nov 29 On Terrance Hayes
BY NOW, MOST FOLKS who read or claim they read poetry know that Terrance Hayes won the 2010 Nationa..

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