Sunday, May 17, 2009


I gave my students a sheet of paper with the phrase "Eating the Honey of Words" written at the top, taken from Bly's collection of poems. The students were then to "collect" words throughout the semester--both ones they loved and hated, and we discussed them occasionally, and traded too, creating various prompts with the sheets. I also had a sheet of butcher paper stapled to the wall in the front of the room and invited them to write some of those words on the paper, which they loved to do. This, of course, was while I taught creative writing in high school, though I did do the paper in a pocket part with my college students in Intro to Creative Writing.

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