VARDELL: On your website, you write about
poetry as memoir, fiction, picture book, history, and empathy — all of which are reflected in your body of work.
In the Classroom: As we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of
poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again).
Not exact matches
Plus, a spiritual
memoir (my one weakness) coupled with Oxford, literature,
poetry, and other English - isms (my other one weakness), well, I sort of adopted her
as my kindred spirit.
It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to
memoir, it includes original
poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination
as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.
Based on Jane Hawking's second
memoir, the film begins
as a young doctoral student falls for a medeival
poetry major and, despite the death sentence of a medical diagnosis, marries.
Kennedy is also the author of the travel
memoir Sing and Don't Cry: A Mexican Journal, the
poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires,
as well
as the novel The World Beneath.
Recent titles, such
as Erin Stalcup's novel, Every Living Species, and Frances Cannon's graphic
memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big - Little Frank, have blurred the line between image and word, while others, such
as Glenn Shaheen's short story collection, Carnivalia, have combined
poetry and prose.
In 50 chronological sonnets, Nelson's
memoir explores her childhood and early teen years
as she moves often with her military family, copes with Cold War fears, encounters racism firsthand, and discovers a passion for words, language, and
poetry.
Lucky for us, he reads this
memoir — consisting of short chapters filled with reminiscences, recollections, reflections,
poetry, and song — which a family member described
as «constructed in fabric squares like one of your mother's quilts.»
In addition to having published a
memoir, four novels, three
poetry collections, and her bestselling Writing in a Nutshell series, she has been featured in a variety of publications and ABC Radio National shows such
as Writer's Digest, Publisher's Weekly, Mamam!a, Life Matters, and Poetica.
If I can address this one: I write about difficult topics
as well
as Rachel Thompson (aka @RachelintheOC)--
as a childhood sexual abuse survivor, with two
memoir /
poetry books out (so far) on the topic, and my author platform focuses on those topics.
Among the categories Ecco publishes are novels, short stories,
poetry,
memoir, science, politics, history, and sociology,
as well
as lavish contemporary cookbooks.
Memoir,
poetry, and short story writing
as well
as playwriting are some of the creative writing offerings in our Studio School.