I started teaching at the university level in ’79 — that’s thirty years ago. In that time I’ve received thousands of student evaluations through the institutional bubble forms.
David Yezzi of the New Criterion opined on Obama’s choice of Elizabeth Alexander to give the inaugural poem, in the Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 9, 2009. It’s been linked variously. Most of what he says seems apt, reasonable and in fact obviously true about the situation and the choice.
The lecture: a nineteenth-century pedagogical mode that lived past its time into the twentieth century, an inefficient method by which the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing throug
Poe at 200
On love & reading
Dial-a-poem in P&W
Once again, the case against political poetry
David Yezzi of the New Criterion opined on Obama’s choice of Elizabeth Alexander to give the inaugural poem, in the Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 9, 2009. It’s been linked variously. Most of what he says seems apt, reasonable and in fact obviously true about the situation and the choice.
I have/you want, I give/you take, I am/you aren't