Teaching Graphic Literature in the Creative Writing Classroom
Teaching graphic literature in the creative writing classroom doesn’t have to be merely a means of enhancing literary skills. Graphic narratives, poetry comics, and literary collage are all forms of creative writing that can take central stage in our classrooms.
The Fault Lines of Memory
I grew up in Northridge California, a place prone to big earthquakes. The San Andreas fault is a defining feature of California, and anyone who lives there, lives with the recognition that the ground can shift at any moment. What was certain one day can be completely changed in the next.
A Dash of Dash
Punctuation began as a guide to reading aloud, akin to musical notation, indicating breath breaks and rhetorical shifts, differences in pitch: verbal stage directions. Punctuation as punctum.