Monthly Archives: June 2021

“Black children continue to be unconsciously trained to correlate blackness with wrongness and whiteness with rightness.”

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Kate Stover

Let’s start with this idea: linguists do not designate any language as being superior.  And yet, when I teach my students to write academic essays in “standard” English, I am in fact telling them what language I believe is superior.  … Continue reading →

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“Resistance is not about laziness, lack of will power, or the failure of intellect and imagination.”

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Kate Stover

Instead, it’s about neurology and psychology, Rosanne Bane argues in her book about the resistance that nearly all writers experience at some point. She explains what happens in our brains when we have trouble writing. As a writing teacher, I … Continue reading →

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“It seemed to me that if I could stir, if I could move to take the next step, I could go out into the poem the way I could go out into that snow.”

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Kate Stover

Were my reading assignments interesting?  Moving?  Inspiring?  These are the questions I ask myself after teaching literature classes.  I hope my students will experience the sort of engagement that Eudora Welty describes here.  She writes about spending an afternoon in … Continue reading →

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