“Teaching Patriarchy Post-‘Barbie,'” Ms. Magazine
In this essay, I describe how I have created a way for students to learn about feminism even if they initially describe themselves as anti-feminist. My class helps students harness the power of the feminist lens to discover how the patriarchy is operating as a defining force in their lives.
This article describes an exercise designed to demystify the writing process and provide students with helpful guidelines for moving from concept to explication through the process of developing their zero draft into a completed essay.
“Using Reflection and Metacognition to Develop Your Half Essay,” Writing Spaces
This assignment is a selection from the Writing Spaces Assignment and Activity Archive, an open access companion resource to the Writing Spaces open textbook series.
“Lake Ontario in Midwinter” and “Charleston, South Carolina”
Two poems published in anthologies of the journal Diagram. “Charleston, South Carolina” was published in (Some From) Diagram: An Anthology of Text, Art, and Schematic, edited by Ander Monson in 2003. It was published in Washington, DC by Del Sol Press. “Lake Ontario in Midwinter” was published in Climate Controlled: An Electronic Anthology of Northern Literature, edited by Ander Monson in 2002. It was published in Tuscaloosa, AL by Diagram/New Michigan Press.
“Driving Home After the Wildfires”
This poem was published in the 2024 online gallery of The Nature of Our Times, Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. The Nature of Our Times is a project of Poets for Science, inspired by “the nation’s first ever National Nature Assessment (NNA1), which will…focus on themes surrounding Conservation and Natural Resource Management, Economic Interests, Human Health and Well-Being, and Safety and Security, with the cross-cutting areas of Climate Change and Equity woven throughout proposed themes as identified through federal agency, public, and Tribal engagement efforts.” The Nature of Our Times “collects poems that speak to the immense value of nature—for our children and future generations, for our own and the planet’s well-being, and the resilience and survival of our communities.”