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On Shaking Things Up: Art and the Role of Surprise

“Imagination, more than any other capacity, breaks through ‘the inertia of habit.’” (Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, p.2 quoting John Dewey)
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” Pablo Picasso
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor

A few years after college–after following the temple [...]

Free flow: watching & learning from my students

While I’m sorting out my problems with archived posts’ broken links (argh), wrestling with upcoming talks, and complaining about Vermont’s never-ending winter, I thought it would do me and you good to move to a more positive outlook and point to some extraordinary work my students are doing with Web-based practices. (This is [...]

(the new) bgblogging

Although I’ve been blogging with my students on WP for a couple of courses and have bgexperiments for my creative-writing exercises, bgblogging has heretofore lived, and quite happily so, on Movable Type. But in six weeks’ time I will be leaving the faculty of Middlebury College and thus must start now to pack my [...]

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Building a Course, Weaving a Story: Writing the Experience


Some Irish Writers You Really Ought to Read…or… How I Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day


March 14 2008: The Day My Father Would Have Turned 90


The Ides of March Approach


Voting Today in A Vermont Village After Teaching


Why Open A Creative Writing Course with Multimedia Experiments