How Dare We! Write FREE DESK COPIES

WRITING INSTRUCTORS PLEASE NOTE:   “If you are teaching a high school or undergrad or graduate Creative Writing course in 2017-2018, we are accepting requests for desk copies of “How Dare We! Write: a multicultural discourse.” Please email info@ModernHistoryPress.com from your faculty email address to request a copy and include …

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Alternative Approaches to Creative Writing (now titled: How Dare We! Write

Alternative Approaches to Creative Writing:  a writer’s journey Or, perhaps Alternative Text for Creative Writers: a university instructor’s curriculum, or perhaps any number of titles I’ve conjured.  For several years I’ve been asking the question what colorful writer has written a book about writing.  Recently I discovered Black Lightning:  poetry-in-Progress, edited …

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Excerpt from How Dare We! Write

“The tinikling offers a visual explanation of how bilingual writing works. Like the agile dancing feet of a tinikling dancer, a bilingual writer’s mind is connected to her feet at all times, transferring and translating the beat of clapping bamboos from a hearing experience to a whole body experience. Living …

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Excerpt from How Dare We! Write

“I would add that many programs do not even offer courses dealing with race and writing as an elective. I didn’t know such a thing existed. Over the duration of my program, my writing became less race conscious instead of more. Sure everything thing I do and say leaves the …

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