Writers Learning with Their Elders
Gaby Bedetti | Eastern Kentucky University Lindsey Danielle Horn | Eastern Kentucky University With the support of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, I spent an academic year learning to write poetry with many older adults, aged sixty-five and over, at the Carnegie Center Author Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. Once examined in my poems, my murky…
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Reflection on a Year of Editing FEN Blog
Lauren Fusilier | University of Louisville Megan Von Bergen | University of Tennessee, Knoxville As of June 2022, both Megan Von Bergen and Lauren Fusilier are stepping down from the editorship of FEN Blog and turning the reins over to a new editorial team. It’s been a privilege to work on getting FEN Blog off…
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Antiracist Ways of Reading
Reading can be powerfully antiracist. But it is not inevitably so. There are variables: what one reads and how one reads matter…
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The Cycle of Progressive Failure
Considering why something worked and why something else did not provides openings for growth and new opportunity. It is with intentional and consistent reflection that I have come to embrace my own failures as a part of my growth as an instructor and a person…
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Notes on Writing and Desire
Perhaps what I learned most importantly about writing and desire is that I pursued writing that opened up the world and its queerness to me precisely to resist the discursive and material injunctions against my queerness that surrounded me…
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Roll Call: Labor Logs as an Additional Method of Accounting for Classroom Attendance
I believe that my labor-based log challenges students to reflect on their experiences as writers while respecting their process with mental health as well. This form is my attempt to respect the labor of the student…
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