QUICK CREATIVE INSPIRATION

Visitors from all backgrounds and all levels of English and Creative Writing experience are welcome and encouraged to explore these readings. Our topics range from requiring no prerequisites beyond a standard high school curriculum to advanced undergraduate subjects, and the content and pace is tailored to popular interest, with additional published works by award-winning middle school to university-age writers. We hope to provide not only a rigorous survey of material and syllabi, but also an appreciation of the elegance and diversity of writing, reading, literary critique, cultural knowledge, and interdisciplinary collaboration between storytelling and multiple other areas that our studies encompass. Furthermore, we aspire to encourage students from underrepresented backgrounds to consider majoring in or prioritizing English studies during their academic careers and throughout their lives.

An additional aim of this program is to serve as a suitable virtual replacement or supplement for the numerous summer youth writing studios, workshops, and college programs that may be inaccessible to those lacking prior training or a humanities background, or have experienced dissonance between racial/ethnic heritages and in-person classroom curricula and environments. Participants will join a community of like-minded peers and college students, with social activities including blogging, virtual game nights, roundtable oral storytelling, and Q&A sessions with humanities undergraduates and invited guests on topics drawn from the following links. By building friendships and sharing the wonders of English, we hope to make these pandemic years more fulfilling. In this modernized encyclopedia of literary trends, there's a little something here for everyone.


ESSAYS AND ASSORTED AUTOTHEORY

"The Angelus" by Nan Z. Da

"The First Asian American Love Story" by Ana Chen

"At the Beach in My Burkini" and Race and Ontological Alienation in Othello by Romaissaa Benzizoune

"A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft

"Antarctica the Woman" by Stephanie Krzywonos

"Beneath the Break" by Billie Ouellette-Howitz and "The Plague of Boils" by Julie Marie Wade

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

"Can the Subaltern Speak?" by Gayatri Spivak

"Cancer Buffet" by Mary Hannah Terzino

"Claiming Dixie?" by Jennifer Ho

Decolonize Museums by Shimrit Lee

Dialogue Humanities Review Vol. 1, No. 1 (An Academic Journal for Secondary Students)

"Don't Call Me a Genius" by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Dreams of Dreams" by Christina Qiu

"Flavors of Space-Time" by Sam Anderson and "The Food of my Youth" by Melissa Chadburn from The Best American Food Writing 2019, The Art of Eating and "Once a Tramp, Always a Tramp...Some cravings last a lifetime" by M.F.K. Fisher

Fun Home Chapter 1 by Alison Bechdel

Girls Write Now Real Simple "A Splash of Light" by Ruby Faith Hentoff, and "You Don't Owe Anyone Anything" by Megumi Jindo

"Growing Up Sansei in LA" by Karen Tei Yamashita

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

"Hoarding Made Me Feel Safe From the World. Then the World Changed" by Alice Ash

"How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda" by Jiayang Fan

"How Play-Doh Helped Save Me From My Despair in Grad School" by Jenny Qi

"I Remember Anyway" by Ocean Vuong 

"Journey to a Land Free of White People" by Anthony Veasna So

"Junk Food Was Our Love Language" by C. Pam Zhang

"Literary Manifestos/Position Statements" and "A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman" by Bharati Mukherjee

"Letter of Christopher Columbus On His First Voyage to America, 1492," "Letter of Columbus on the Fourth Voyage," and Christopher Columbus & Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, ad 149z) by Salman Rushdie

"Letter to Richard Bentley (10 December 1692)" by Issac Newton

"Mayberry, USA" by Yunte Huang

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

"Multiculturalism in Shakespeare's Plays" by Andrew Dickson

"On Loving White Boys" by Kathy Chow

"Online Dating" by Emily Witt

"Patient Notes" by Bella Majam

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov and "Why Nabokov's Speak, Memory Still Speaks to Us" by Danny Heitman

"Some Dreamers of a Golden Dream" and "The White Album" by Joan Didion, and "A Theory of Mass Culture" by Dwight Macdonald"

"The Asylum as a Literary Institution" by Thomas Augst

"The Empire Writes Back with A Vengeance" by Salman Rushdie, and "From Discourse on Colonialism" by Aimé Césaire

The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw

The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

“The Moon Over the River Lethe" by Carmen Maria Machado

"The Statue That Didn't Look Right" by Malcolm Gladwell

"This Good Season" and "Bad Love: Decoding Criminality in Anime" by Isabella Cho

"My grandparents survived the Cultural Revolution: have I inherited their trauma?" and "Science and Chinese Somatization" by Shayla Love

"On Being a Person of Use" by Amy R. Wong

"On Being Queer and Happily Single — Except When I'm Not" by Brandon Taylor

“Onliness” by Alexandra Schwartz 

"On the Dangers of Autobiographical Writing" by Maria Kuznetsova

"Ophelia and After: Inventing the Lonely Literary Woman" by Angela Qian 

Orientalism Introduction and Chapter 1 by Edward Said

"Ourselves" by David Ahern

"Men Explain Things to Me" by Rebecca Solnit

"My Book Was Called Sickening on Laura Ingraham's Show. Here's the Truth They Didn't Air" by Greg Howard

"My Body is a Cage of My Own Making" and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

sam sax: “LISP” by Jeffrey Careyva

"Sandugo" by Vincent Tolentino

"Shakespeare’s Life: An Essay from the Folger Shakespeare Editions" by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine

"Shakespearean Ruminations and Innovations" by Michael LoMonico

"She Would Quite Like to Kill Me" by Emily Cooke

"Similes and the Moving Van of Metaphor" by A.E. Stallings 

"Some Thoughts on Mercy" by Ross Gay

"Spectator No. 69" by Joseph Addison

"Terroirs" by Sarah Aziza

The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law" by Haben Girma and The Deaf Poets Society Manifesto 

"They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist" by Jenny Zhang

"Toward a Pathology of the Possessed" by Esme Weijun Wang

"Walking While Black" by Garnette Cadogan

Wallace Stevens: “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by Austin Allen

"We Are Free to be Me, You, Stupid, and Dead" by Roger Rosenblatt

"What Getting An MFA In Fiction Meant To Me" by Alexander Chee

"What Happens When We Are Deprived of Touch?" by Sushma Subramanian

"What if You Could Do It All Over?" by Joshua Rothman

"White Witchery" by Elissa Washuta

"Who Tells Your Story: The Literary Politics of Hamilton The Musical's Curious Online Afterlife" by Lily Goldberg

"Why I Never Get Anywhere, or, A List of Mostly Failed Poetry Ideas Scribbled at the back of Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" by Kim Farrar

"Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare" by James Baldwin


STORIES

"Accepted" by Vanessa Hua

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

"Apollo" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"A Flawless Silence" by Yiyun Li

"A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle

Listen to "A Secret Life of a Tree" by Matthew Herbert

"Beginners (Edited)" The Transformation of a Raymond Carver Classic

Care Package and BookDragon and Pickles and Tea by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Chemistry by Weike Wang

"Chike's School Days" by Chinua Achebe

"Detective Dog" by Gish Jen

 Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn

"Fish Sauce For the God of War" by Johanna Dong

"Flesh" by Grace Wang

"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor

"Graftings" by Stella Lei

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

"Herbs de Provence" by Noah Dunn

"Hunting Monsters" by S.L. Huang

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

"Japanese Hamlet" by Toshio Mori

"Kali" by Nandita Naik

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and "The Soul of a City" by Jonathan Mahler

"Literary Witches" by Katy Horan and Taisia Kitaiskaia

Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

"My Dear You" by Rachel Khong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

One Hundred Years of Solitude and Writing Advice from Gabriel García Márquez

One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry

"Paper Boy" by Rosie Hong

"Parachute Kids" by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Plague at the Golden Gate Transcript by PBS American Experience

"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison

"Sea Oak" by George Saunders

"Shaggy Dog" by Eugene Lim

"Snow" by Julia Alvarez

"Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq (audio excerpt)

"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell

"Summer Rules" by Rain Hou

"The Bone Eaters" by Serena Linna Zhang

"The Burning House" by Ann Beattie

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe

"The Catch" by Grace Coberly

"The Curse of Calloused Feet" by Gretta Trafficante

"The Effluent Engine" by N.K. Jemisin

"The Eye of Argon" by Jim Theis and Description

"The Hospital" by Sarah Zhang

"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal

"The Moth for the Stars" by James Reich"The Red-Headed Pilgrim" by James Maloney, and "Pay Attention, Remember This" by Mara Aguilar Egan

"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (translated by Ivan Morris)

The Poppy Wars by R.F. Kuang

The Rabbits by Shaun Tan

The Scarlet Letter (Excerpt) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

"The Third and Final Continent" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells

"The White-Throated Transmigrant" by E. Lily Yu

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Thornhope, Indiana" by Jon Gingerich

“Three Women of Chuck's Donuts,” by Anthony Veasna So

"Today I Will Bake a Cake" by Layhannara Tep

Two Yellow Titmice by Frank Chen (Translated from Chinese by Jennie Chia-Hui Chu)

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates

"Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty

"Yellow Woman" by Leslie Marmon Silko


POEMS

"A Center" by Ha Jin

"A Cultural Artifact" by Jenna Le

"An Horatian Notion" by Thomas Lux

A Humument by Tom Phillips

"America" by Allen Ginsberg

"Amor Fati" by Katha Pollitt

"Aphelion" by Mckenzie Duan

"Ariadne Plays the Physician" by Analicia Sotelo

"Ariel," "Blackberrying," "Love Letter," "Nick and the Candlestick," "Poppies in October," "Stars Over the Dordogne," "Aquatic Nocturne," "Wintering," and "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath

Ars Poetica by Archibald Macleish

Asian American Power Ups: "Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls," "I'm not a religious person but," and "In the Hospital" by Chen Chen, “Altar (#3)” from “Broken Chord Sequence," "Brown Girl Manifesto (Too)," and "Chinese Quatrains (The Woman in Tomb 44)" by Marilyn Chin

Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito by Tarfia Faizullah

"A True Account Of Talking To The Sun On Fire Island" and "Song (Is It Dirty)"  and "Autobiographia Literaria" and "Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]" by Frank O'Hara

"A Litany For Survival," "A Woman Speaks," "Coal," "From the House of Yemanjá," "Movement Song," "Never to Dream of Spiders," "New Year's Day," "Power," "Recreation," "Who Said It Was Simple" by Audre Lorde

"Bad Intelligence" by Corey Van Landingham

Berndnaut Smilde Nimbus II, "A Big Clown-Face-Shaped Cloud" by Kenneth Koch, "This Bridge, Like Poetry, is Vertigo" by Marie Ponsot

"Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski

BRITTEN: Les Illuminations (1939) Text by Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91), Program Notes, and Frederick Ashton's ballet Illuminations choreographed to Britten's musical setting of Rimbaud's words

"Buckroe, After the Season, 1942," "Fair Warning," and "Musical Moment" by Virginia Hamilton Adair

"Caulbearer (yucca brevifolia)" by Luisa A. Igloria

"Chinese Silence No. 36," "Chinese Silence No. 22," and "Chinese Silence No. 92" by Timothy Yu and "Exile's Letter" by Li Po

"Chunjie,” “Coils in the Draft,” and “Becoming a White Spectator” by Sarah Zhang

"Coda" by Louis MacNeice

"Conditionals" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Dancing with Kiko on the Moon" by Rosebud Ben-Oni

"Deluge: A Chinese Almanac" by Nicole Wan-Ting Lee and Interview"Ballad for Violent Things, Red Things, Things That Can Be Eaten" by Rue Huang, "Bedroom at the End of the World" by Desirée Alvarez, "Sand Flats, UT" by Emily Lawson, "I just wanted to see what it would do when I say" by Gabriel Cortez“Scorched Earth” by Tiana Clark“A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood” by Dāshaun Washington"On Our Birthday, Lorraine Hansberry and I Discuss Sunlight" by Tariq Thompson“kh like khummus” by Bazeed, "America’s First Female Muslim Judge Found Floating in a River" by Isabella DeSendi, "I Tried Dating Again–Like the Doctor Said–But I Don’t Think I’m Ready #2020" by Faylita Hicks, "(grapes)" by Matthew Minicucci, "Aftermath" by Catherine-Esther Cowie, "Ma’s Canh Chua Recipe: April – December 1975" by Kevin Park, Channbunmorl Sou, & Mylo Lam 

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

"Digging" and "Mid-Term Break" by Seamus Heaney

"Direction" and "Robot Poems" by Rachel Calnek-Sugin

"Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?" by Tracy K. Smith

"Dream of Sitting at a Desk" and "A Thousand Countries of Sleep" by Hua

"Dream Song 14" by John Berryman

"Fourteen Days" By Grace Yu & Sarah McNaughton

"Gas Station " by Matthew Dickman

"Gate A-4" and "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Harlem Sweeties" by Langston Hughes

"Harold's Chicken Shack #1," "Harold's Chicken Shack #35," "Harold's Chicken Shack #86," and "Fame Food & Liquor" by Nate Marshall

"How the Story Goes" by Grace Q. Song

"I Once Was A Child" by Victoria Chang

"I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman

"In This I Find" by Sydney Jin Choi and Aarthi Haig

"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

"Leda and the Swan" by Kathryn Hargett

"Lessons From Hawaii" by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

"Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798" and "Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)" and "Appendix of 1802, on Poetic Diction" and The Lucy Poems by William Wordsworth

"maggie and milly and molly and may" by E. E. Cummings

“Magic Words” by Nalungiaq

"Map" by Linda Hogan

Martin Wong's First letter home from New York (also I joined The Museum of Modern Art)

maybe all this :: wislawa szymborska

"Men" by Maya Angelou

"Midnight Flame" by Arthur Sze

"Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers" by Suji Kwock Kim 

MTA Poetry in Motion

"Murder, She Wrote" by Jane Yeh

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

"Only Child" and "The Country" by Billy Collins

"Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich and Planetaria by Monica Ong

"Plutonium Ode" by Allen Ginsberg (full text and reading)

"Poker Star" by Richard Brautigan

"Princess Bubblegum Dreams of Marceline the Vampire Queen" and "Medea Writes to High School Girl" and "The Way to a Chinese Daughter's Heart" by Stephanie Chang

"Psalm 161" by Jae Nichelle

"Quiet Night Thoughts (床前明月光 Chuáng Qián Míng Yuè Guāng)" by Li Bai

"Reasons for Letting My Garden Grow Wild" by Yvanna Vien Tica

"Reflections" by Aarthi Deshmukh Haig

Sijo Writing Competition 2022 Winners

"She Thinks She Hung the Moon" by Dara Wier

Poems of the Sun: "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" by Lewis Carroll, "Bath" by Amy Lowell, "A Parking Lot in West Houston" by Monica Youn, "Chinatown Diptych" by Jenny Xie, "Endless Summer" by Nate Pritts, "Firefly" by Jacqueline Woodson, "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost, “From the Sustaining Air” by Larry Eigner, "No Name" by Emily Berry, "Sumer is i-cumin in" by anonymous, Summer    (a love poem) by Frank Lima, "Summer at North Farm" by Stephen Kuusisto, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats, "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon

sunlight through the honey jar by Savannah Bradley

Tao Te Ching translated by D.C. Lau and Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein's Vintage Verses About Objects, Illustrated by Lisa Congdon

The Adroit Prizes: "The Scorpion" by Amal Haddad"Escape Trick Anthology" by Caroline Wu"Lotus Flower Kingdom" by Stephanie Chang"Watching the Voice of China With My Mother at 13" by Enshia Li, "I Could Have Danced All Night" by Delilah Silberman"From Excess Sonnets" by Isabel Prioleau"No," "Inheritance," "Encyclopedia," and "Photo" by Eric Yip"When I Grow Up I Want to Be A Fossil" by Nandita Naik吃飯沒 by Briana Lu, "Return Home" and "Essay on Fortune-Telling" by Daniel Liu

"The Bear" by Susan Mitchell and "The Blue Booby" by James Tate

The Book of Questions"Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market," "Ode to the Artichoke," "Ode to a Lemon," "Ode to the Tomato," "Ode to the Onion," and "Ode to Salt" translation by Philip Levine by Pablo Neruda

The Complete Ci-poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation by Jiaosheng Wang

"The Cure for What Ails You" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

"The Devout Childhood of St. Elizabeth of Hungary" and "Skeleton Fantasy Show" and "Boy Meets Girl -- From Mars" by Fiona Stanton

The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner

"The House is Underwater" by Sydney Jin Choi

"The Naming of Cats" by T.S. Eliot

"The Nightgown" by Taisia Kitaiskaia

The Poetry Society "[Zeus] Anatomical Dolls" by Fiona Benson, "A Blaze becomes Fire" by Valeria Ferraro, "17" by Emma Danes, "2015" by Mary Ruefle, "My Dead Father’s General Store in the Middle of a Desert" by Lee Stockdale, "A Bag of Tangerines" by Rebecca O’Connor, "4pt suicide note" by Flora de Falbe, "< Vera >" by Jack Cooper[Rabbit] by Amy Wolstenholme

 "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" by William Blake

"Thinking in Swedish" and "Global Energy" by Major Jackson

"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams

"To the Eyes Beholding Stardust" and "Our Quarantine Story" by Michelle Whittaker

"Touched by Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves" by Sasha Pimentel

"Triptych" by Sarah Lao

"Tritina for Suzannah" by David Yezzi

Truisms by Jenny Holtzer and Claes Oldenberg's "I'm for an art" statements

"thank thank" by Christina Im, "Besides the Fear of Darkness" by Jal Hamid Bashir,  and "Faith" by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

"Vampire Plants Talk to Their Victims While Drinking" by Arah Ko

"Vocal Pedagogy," "Hymn: Chainsweat," and "The Sugar", "Bird in the Rain," and "A Tangle of Gorgons" by Willie Lee Kinard III

"Watch Dog" by Patricia Liu

"We are Girls from the East" by Paromita Talukder & Priscilla Guo

"When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

"What Do You Believe A Poem Shd Do?" by Ntozake Shange

"What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden" by Katherine Riegel

"White Orchid" and "Gust" by Peter LaBerge

"Winter Stars" by Larry Levis

"won’t you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton

You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katherine Harmon

Young Poets Network Writing Challenge Winners: "My War" by Amy Wolstenholme, "The Crow" by Nina Billard Sarmadi, "Mycelium Under the Canopy" by Brooke Nind"Translations in Survival" by Jewel Cao, "Halfway Lunar" by Annie Cao, "Self-Portrait as Rapunzel, in which the Tower Represents Grief" by Ellora Sutton, "half woman half snake" by Alara Egi


GENERAL ADVICE

Christina Im's Poetry Syllabi for the Glass Kite Anthology Summer Writers Studio and Venus Magazine Summer Poetry Workshop

"Competitive Lit" by Rachel Stone

"Dear Writer: Tips For Young Writers (Vol. I) by Topaz Winters

"Editors Talk Poetry Rejections: Kwame Dawes, Prairie Schooner"

Evernote's "12 Creative Writing Templates for Planning Your Novel" by Forrest Dylan Bryant

"Elitism and American Poetry" by Amit Majmudar

Emotion Typology (discover the nuances of emotions)

"Fantasy Books by Asian Authors Foster Resilience and Healing in AAPI Communities" by Krystal Jagoo

"Four Sample Graduate Admissions Essays"

"Glossary Terms for the Study of Film" by Dr. E.K. Tan

Groundswell Artivist Toolkit: NYC Youth Arts Resource Guide (This booklet gives you information on over 100 youth art programs in NYC for you to join! Almost all of them are free and range in topics from visual arts, performing arts, internships, after-school and summer programs) and Career and Resource Guide (Includes College Application Guide, Portfolio Development Guide, and Careers in the Arts)

GUTS ROUND

Juniper Institute for Young Writers 

Program Guidebook and Workshop Leader Haley Rene Thompson's Some Things to Think About

Iowa Young Writers' Studio (July 5-18, 2015 Session 2 Welcome Letters and Readings)

What to Bring

Visual Description of Assigned Fiction Reader

Carmen Machado’s Fiction Writing Workshop Letter and “Jon” by George Saunders and “Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link

Maria Kuznetsova’s Fiction Writing Workshop Letter and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and "Yours" by Mary Robison

Riley Johnson’s Creative Writing Workshop Letter

YoungArts New York 2016 

Writing Group 3 Schedule and Required Reading "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud

The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship 2016

Syllabus with Taisia Kitaiskaia and Week 1 Readings

Oxford Summer Seminar 2019

Jane Austen Syllabus by Dr. Tom MacFaul, Lecturer in English

Fiction Course Introductory Reading "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?" by Kathleen Collins by Dr. Clare Morgan, Director, MSt in Creative Writing

GUTS ROUND

Harvard College Writing Center's "A Brief Guide to Writing the English Paper"

"How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color?" by Sabina Murray and Ocean Vuong

How to Read a Poem Chapter One by Edward Hirsch

Lan Samantha Chang's Sound Bites and An Interview with Lan Samantha Chang

Legislative Theater Resources by People Powered 

Lynda Barry's X-page questions from What It Is

Negative Capability by John Keats

NYPL Shelf Help is The New York Public Library’s new personalized book selection service. Fill out this form and our book experts will put together a bundle of five books for you to borrow based on your reading interests. You can use this form for yourself, or for a family member or friend!

"Old Testament Ancient Near East Culture and Geography Terms," "Basic Chronology of Hebrew Bible," and "A Very Rough Guide to the Psalms" by Director, Stony Brook Creative Writing & Literature MFA Program and Pulitzer Prize Novelist Paul Harding

"On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story" by Lincoln Michel

"Pandemic Perseverance" by Dr. Jeffrey Santa Ana

Poetry Terminology: Abecedarian, Alliteration, Allusion, AnaphoraApostrophe, Ars Poetica, Call and Response, Condition Report (with prompt)Diptych/TriptychEkphrasis, Enjambment, Epic, EpistolaryHaikuIronyGenius Loci (as in the spirit of a place), Golden ShovelImage List, Metaphor, MetonomyPantoum, Simile, Synecdoche, PersonificationRant Poem, Rondel, Sapphic Stanza FormSestina/TritinaSonnet

PRISM International "Young Writers: On Navigating the Publishing Industry"

"Questions for the Author," "Workshop Observation Prompts," and "Final Multimedia Rubric" by Poetry Lecturer Miranda Beeson

Ralph Ammer's A Quick Beginner's Guide to Drawing (2017)

Rhetorical TermsTautology from Introducing Wittgenstein, and Famous Chaismus Examples

R.F. Kuang's Writing Resources

A Science Fictional Universe: "Science Fiction: An Introduction" and "Film Genre" by Dr. Simone Brioni, "Picturing Paranoia: Interpreting Invasion of the Body Snatchers" by Steven M. Sanders"Posthumanism after AKIRA" by Steven T. Brown, "There is no Spoon: Transnationalism and the Coding of Race/Ethnicity in the Science Fiction/Fantasy Cinema of Keanu Reeves" by Julian Cha

"Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lamott

"Submission for Beginners: The Reality of Lit Mag Publishing" by Lindsay Merbaum 

“That Which You Are Afraid to Write, Write It” by huiying b. chan

"The Call" and "Teen Writers Deserve Better Than the Teen Writing Scene" by Amanda Silberling

The Moth Storytelling Tricks and Tips

"The Rambler No. 4" by Samuel Johnson

The Scientific Lens: An Exploration of Science-Inspired Poetry by Bethanie Humphreys

"The Warmth of the Messy Page" by Rachel Richardson

Theories of the Epic, Novel, and Modern Epic with prompt by Dr. Benedict Robinson

Personality Theory in Fiction Writing (5-part series)

"The Moon is Beautiful Tonight: How and Why East Asian Stories Generate Plot Without Conflict" by Jianan Qian

The Poetry Society's "Poetry Writing Prompts," "How to Work in the Arts" and "Choose Your Own Adventure in the Arts: Naush Sabah on Making a Career"

“The Talent of the Room,” Michael Ventura

"Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers" by Bret Stephens

"We Just Want to Encourage and Support More and More Poets Every Year." A Chat With Tim Green, Editor of Rattle

"What is Blackout Poetry? Examples and Inspiration" and "Searching for Poetry in Prose" A Blackout Poem Generator by The New York Times

Write & Share Poetry with Pongo: From Your Browser We will respond to each author with positive feedback. Plus, with your permission, your piece may be selected for republishing!

"Writing Creative Nonfiction: Revising Your Work" Checklist by Roxane Gay

"Compost" from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

"Writing Diverse Fiction: A Practical Guide," "The dirt on ‘American Dirt’: Navigating the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’ novel" by Barrie Olmstead, "Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural appropriation" by Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Aminatta Forna, AL Kennedy, Philip Hensher and others, and "Yes, You Should Be Afraid to Write "Diverse" Characters" by Mo Black

"Writing the Book You Want to Read: Is It Really the Key to Success?" "Guaranteed Tricks and Tips to Ensure You Never, Ever Finish Writing Your Book" and "Seven Surefire Signs You Have What It Takes to Publish a Book" by Hannah Guy

"Writing the Womb, Writing the Wound: The Function of Vulnerability in Autotheory" by Madison Weaver 

Victoria Chang's Interview with Shangyang Fang


DIGITAL HUMANITIES

"A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse" by J. Nathan Mathias

A History of the World in 100 Objects

"Art Meets Cartography: The 15,000-Year History of a River in Oregon Rendered in Data" by Christopher Jobson on the work of Dan Coe

Dear Data (2015) by Lupi, G. & Posavec S

Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn While Quinn's text is a well-respected and well-executed piece of e-lit, some readers may not be comfortable with the subject material. If this is the case, feel free to read about the text instead: "Zoe Quinn's Depression Quest" by Simon Parkin

Digital Media Production Kit by Girls Write Now

Digital Storytelling (2 Prompts) by Jon HeggestadW3Schools (a clear and useful online web developer resource), CodePen, and Atom

Electronic Literature Directory

Electronic Literature: Contexts and Poetics" by Davin Heckman and James O’Sullivan

"Electronic Literature: What is it?” by N. Katherine Hayles

"Exploring Deep Mapping Concepts: Crosthwaite’s Map and West’s Picturesque Stations" by Alexander Reinhold, Christopher Donaldson, Ian Gregory, Paul Rayson

"First-Generation Poetry Generators" by Christopher Funkhouser

"First Screening" by bpNichol

Get Started With ArcGIS StoryMapsGIS For HumanitiesEsri Story Maps: 10 Essential Steps for Story Map Success, Learn ArcGIS Lesson Gallery"Maps in the Humanities and Social Sciences" by Mark Monmonier, Nine Steps to Great StorytellingStory Maps and The Digital Humanities

Getting Started With Interactive Fiction by Adam Cadre (with games)

Haiku D2 by John D. Burger, Description, and "The Rise of Twitter Bots" by Rob Dubbin

"How Explosives, A Robot, and A Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier" by Matt Simon on Glaciologist and Climate Scientist Erin Pettit, "Inspiring Girls Expeditions" by Expeditionary Art's Maria Coryell-Martin, "New UAF wilderness program carries on tradition of empowering girls" by Meghan Murphy and Nate Bauer, Girls in Icy Fjords 2017 Participant Michelle Chen's reflections in the form of That's Life Science (TLS) Art and Science Collaboration with Kadambari Devarajan, "Discovering the Impact of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Exploration on Polar Bear Presence Using Maternal Den and Cortisol Sample Locations" 2021 GIS Design & Applications Final Project (A grade report) and Journey to the Frozen North ArcGIS StoryMap (in progress!)

"How to Rob a Bank" by Alan Bigelow

Kate McLean's Smell Maps

"Love Letters" by Christopher Strachey

"Queers in Love at the End of the World" by Anna Anthropy

"Sea and Spar Between" by Nick Montfort

"Taroko Gorge" by Nick Monfort and Description

"The Boat" Adaptation by Matt Huynh based on the story by Nam Le 

"The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping, and Environmental Humanities' Big Data" by Charles Travis

"The Indifference Engine" by Elyse Graham

"The Strange World of Computer-Generated Novels" by Josh Dzieza

Twine: Telling stories and "Twine’s Revolution: Democratization, Depoliticization, and the Queering of Game Design" by Alison Harvey

What is Netprov? and "The Riderly Text: The Joy of Networked Improv Literature" by Davin Heckman


BONUS ROUND

12 Quotes To Live By From “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert

Are You My Friend? by Lawrence Yeo 

Create an "imagined rhino" and backstory from a fabled, extinct, or mistranslated text.

"Does Art Heal?" by Meera Lee Sethi

"Do Multicultural Experiences Make People More Creative? If So, How?" by Chi-Yue Chiu & Angela Ka-Yee Leung

"Double alienation: A Chinese student in polarized America" by Xiaoqian Zhu

Effects of Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures on Imagination Inflation in Eastern and Western Cultures By Iulia O. Basu-Zharku

Keep Your Friends Closer

La Jetee and La Jetee - The Philosophy of Time Travel

"Misfire" by Kathryn Hargett

On Anthony Veasna So, N+1

Ralph Ammer's A Quick Beginner's Guide to Drawing and Ivan Brunetti's Comics Philosophy and Practice (book trailer)

"The Copy is the Original" by Byung-Chul Han

"The Third Era of Education" by Kirk Fitzpatrick

"The Polarizing Beauty of ‘Phoenix Claws’" by Cathy Erway

TELLING OUR OWN STORY: The Role of Narrative in Racial Healing

Types of Diaspora Writing



“If you stumble make it part of the dance.” - Unknown

“One who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” - Confucius

“Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.” - Billy Bowerman

“You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

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