Tag: Reading

  • Professor Dick Head

    Professor Dick Head

    Professor Dick Head (his friends called him Richard) taught a literature class in my undergraduate college. He was a really smart guy. He had the air of New England about him, though I think he was from Illinois. He wore a tweed coat and vest, dark ties, horn rimmed glasses, a goatee and self-righteousness. He…

  • Reading and empathy

    Here’s a lovely article on how literary fiction plays a fundamental role in developing the skill of empathy. It’s the antithesis of the brutality of a Troll-Nation. Scientific American Magazine

  • For My Students

    For My Students

    I’ve opened this blog for my students, and am starting in the fall semester of 2017, when I am teaching two classes at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles: an introduction to Creative Writing (ENG 106) and Poetry Workshop (ENG 151). I’m writing at a time when I’m not sure what writing is about,…