Category Archives: Writing
Conrad Kent Rivers: Of Mourning Songs and Revolutions
Conrad Kent Rivers’ success with poetry began in high school where his “Poor Peon” won the Savannah, Georgia, State Poetry Prize in 1951. He went on to publish poems in such magazines as the Antioch Review, the Kenyon Review, Negro … Continue reading
Mark Turcotte: Songs for the Endless Others
Poet Mark Turcotte (b. 1958) spent his earliest years on North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain reservation and in several migrant camps in the western U.S. Drawn to Chicago in 1993, partly because of the city’s thriving poetry scene, he established himself … Continue reading
Students with Style
So many different “styles,” depending on what you’re writing and for whom. Yet in ENG 265 – Style, I’ve tried to define a “standard” style, a style of writing you’d read in some of our greatest publications—The New Yorker, The … Continue reading