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Bodies and Body Language: How Poetry Can Teach Us to Communicate

By Kathryn Huie Harrison May 22, 2017 February 27, 2021 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching, Tools & Methods

Bodies, a personal yet strangely distant subject matter for most students to discuss, provide a ripe lens through which to hone the skills that composition classrooms aim to foster. As mediums of communication, bodies afford us multiple ways to express ourselves: through gestures, facial expressions, vocal tone, and body language… Continue reading

Putting Lux in the Darkness: Remembering Poet and Professor Thomas Lux

By Alec Reinhardt April 28, 2017 April 28, 2017 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Feature, From the Editor, Teaching

Editor’s Note: When I first had the idea to teach an English 1102 course about the The New Yorker magazine, I had hoped that Thomas Lux, who has published five poems in the magazine, would come speak to my students. Vijay Seshadri, former editor at The New Yorker and frequent contributor to the… Continue reading