Comments for J-Term Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Comment on Web zine by sehauser

sehauser — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:44:56 +0000

At my school there is a class where people are creating online arts journals and are looking for submissions from wherever and various forms.
I can give you some links if you want to see what other students are doing, just to see how other students approached it. Also, if you are interested in submitting to some journals created by students at my school you should do it!

Comment on Web zine by acfowler

acfowler — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:11:48 +0000

Jen, let’s meet up and get this started.

Comment on Web zine by jenjen9887

jenjen9887 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:19:06 +0000

I think that for the web zine we are hoping to highlight much of the work that we did over this semester and to find other creative nonfiction pieces written by midd students. It is my hope that with the web zine we can compile works using various mediums such as film, photography, and written word. Do you have any ideas you would like to contribute?

Comment on Web zine by sehauser

sehauser — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:39:04 +0000

I’ve been following your class along and I’m just curious about what you plan on doing for this web zine. Can you share any ideas or details?

Comment on Web zine by jenjen9887

jenjen9887 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:00:07 +0000

Lets give it a few more days to hopefully let a few more people post. I am thinking maybe Sunday or Monday night?

Comment on Web zine by acfowler

acfowler — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:42:24 +0000

I’m definitely interested. I’m free tomorrow evening.

Comment on Into Second Semester…and Thursday’s word by acfowler

acfowler — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:05:50 +0000

Julio Cortazar wrote ‘Todos los Fuegos del Fuego.’ It reminds me how fire can be happiness, warmth, passion, anger.

Optimists and hypocrites tell me that ‘donde hubo fuego cenizas quedan.’ I want to hear it, but it’s not a good thing. My pockets are full of ash, my desk is full of ash, my couch is filled with ash. Damn fire.

I knew two smokers in love. They broke up. Their discourse diminished to ‘tienes fuego?’ followed by a search for a lighter, a toss, a catch, and a vestigial flicker of the fire that used to be there, but is gone.

Comment on Into Second Semester…and Thursday’s word by Miriam

Miriam — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:53:35 +0000

I’ve never lit a match, and I’ve never told anyone who has not responded with some sort of disbelief. It was just vaguely odd until about ninth grade, at which point it became a tradition. I could really do it now. Just hold it and strike, not so hard, not so dangerous. My 5-year-old cousin can do it. My sister taunts me with it. My friends want to be my first audience. I can’t, but not because it’s lighting a match anymore. I’ve never made fire. I’m really used to looks of disbelief. And I like having something to say.

Comment on Into Second Semester…and Thursday’s word by Fire « Loaded Learning

Fire « Loaded Learning — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:48:58 +0000

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Comment on Into Second Semester…and Thursday’s word by bgexperiments

bgexperiments — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:25:22 +0000

My sweet daughters, both of fiery spirit

Like their mother, love to argue for argument’s sake.

They fly to flame. No, rather, they put bellows to cinder.

They can’t help themselves. In some places, it is unseemly.

Surprising.

Cruel even.

In our home it is high art.

We have, after all, been brought up to spar

as though lighting the warming evening fire–

All of us on our Irish side

On the historian’s side–

Valuing the slow burn of a perfectly

Wrought argument

As it throws sparks

Across the table at hapless

Guest, sibling or

parent

Igniting idea, conviction,

passion.