A Writer's Book-Stuffed Studio
"The little space that was available Howard gave over to his 'companions,' as he described his books in a 2007 documentary. Simple wooden shelves, installed as a prerequisite before he moved in, stretched to the ceiling, hung over the entryway, and curled into the recessed kitchen....The books were his friends—either friends he did know or friends from literature who he never knew."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nik De Dominic on Teaching Poetry inside Prisons
"I ask students to define a community they’re members of and to list all the language that’s particular to that community and then write litanies, long poetic lists. Students often draw from previous lives. Jobs. Or from the prison itself. The prison then becomes an object of study, the student’s place within it, and through this study, the prison is a site for critique. This is not to say that students aren’t already critiquing prison; it’s that now that critique has value in this space, the classroom." |
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