I met José Orduña at the Associated Writing Program conference in Tampa, Florida this past spring. He had arrived at the conference about 48 hours
Tag: Donald Trump
Writing From the Classroom: Valeree Morales
Here is an essay that I find most engaging, provocative, and I bet a few of you out there might feel the same way. Valeree touches
Trump, Guns, and My Ill Mind
After the most recent school shooting in Florida, President Trump blamed the mentally ill. The liberals jumped on him, but this time around, there was
Poetry and Injustice
This week we pulled over from our regularly-scheduled program of. . .whatever it was I was gonna teach–maybe it was the villanelle form; anyway–we got
My Time in Iowa, Part 3: The Day My Daughter Met Donald Trump
If having a few of my poems bludgeoned in class at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop was my only grief, my journals would simply be a