| |
| |
Preface: A few words to instructors | |
| |
| |
A few things you should know about creative writing | |
| |
| |
| |
Writing Poetry | |
| |
| |
A few things you should know about poetry | |
| |
| |
The elements of poetry | |
| |
| |
The short poem: three models | |
| |
| |
My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom | |
| |
| |
| |
Winter | |
| |
| |
| |
9/11 | |
| |
| |
| |
Lines and stanzas | |
| |
| |
Meter and rhythm | |
| |
| |
The music of poetry | |
| |
| |
Images, symbols, and figurative language | |
| |
| |
Diction, syntax, and the language of poetry | |
| |
| |
Poetic forms | |
| |
| |
Sonnet | |
| |
| |
Villanelle | |
| |
| |
Rondeau | |
| |
| |
Sestina | |
| |
| |
Cinquain | |
| |
| |
Pantoum | |
| |
| |
Ghazal | |
| |
| |
Prose poem | |
| |
| |
Getting started writing poetry | |
| |
| |
Kick-Starts: Beginning your poems | |
| |
| |
An Anthology of Short Poems | |
| |
| |
Postcards to Columbus | |
| |
| |
| |
Zen Americana | |
| |
| |
| |
Bells | |
| |
| |
| |
Frequently Unasked Questions | |
| |
| |
| |
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed | |
| |
| |
| |
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races | |
| |
| |
| |
Brute Strength | |
| |
| |
| |
Nostalgia | |
| |
| |
| |
A Quiet Poem | |
| |
| |
| |
Praise the Tortilla, Praise the Menudo, Praise the Chorizo | |
| |
| |
| |
Noisetone | |
| |
| |
| |
Santa Fe | |
| |
| |
| |
On Being Told I Don't Speak like a Black Person | |
| |
| |
| |
That Silent Evening | |
| |
| |
| |
Boy Sleeping | |
| |
| |
| |
Lunch in Nablus City Park | |
| |
| |
| |
I Went into the Maverick Bar | |
| |
| |
| |
What Is Your Major? | |
| |
| |
| |
The English Canon | |
| |
| |
| |
The Ways of Guilt | |
| |
| |
| |
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems | |
| |
| |
| |
My Mother Dreams Another Country | |
| |
| |
| |
The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Writing the Short-Short Story | |
| |
| |
A few things you should know about the short-short story | |
| |
| |
The elements of fiction | |
| |
| |
The short-short story: three models | |
| |
| |
Crossing the River Zbrucz | |
| |
| |
| |
The Baby | |
| |
| |
| |
Marzipan | |
| |
| |
| |
Structure and design | |
| |
| |
Creating characters | |
| |
| |
Writing dialogue | |
| |
| |
Setting the scene | |
| |
| |
Deciding on point of view, developing tone and style | |
| |
| |
First-person point of view | |
| |
| |
Second-person point of view | |
| |
| |
Third-person limited point of view | |
| |
| |
Third-person omniscient point of view | |
| |
| |
Tense | |
| |
| |
Tone and style | |
| |
| |
Getting started writing the short-short story | |
| |
| |
Kick-Starts: Beginning your story | |
| |
| |
An Anthology of Short-Short Stories | |
| |
| |
The Hit Man | |
| |
| |
| |
A Kind of Flying | |
| |
| |
| |
Popular Mechanics | |
| |
| |
| |
Reunion | |
| |
| |
| |
Bottle Caps | |
| |
| |
| |
Near Michaelmas | |
| |
| |
| |
Church Cancels Cow | |
| |
| |
| |
Girl | |
| |
| |
| |
Wolf's Head Lake | |
| |
| |
| |
The Old Badger Game | |
| |
| |
| |
Dominate and Recessid Jeans | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Writing Short Creative Nonfiction | |
| |
| |
A few things you should know about short creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
The elements of creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
Short creative nonfiction: three models | |
| |
| |
News of the Wild | |
| |
| |
| |
Joyas Voladoras | |
| |
| |
| |
Liferower | |
| |
| |
| |
Organizing creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
Telling the truth | |
| |
| |
Creative nonfiction as narrative | |
| |
| |
Character | |
| |
| |
Dialogue | |
| |
| |
Scene-setting | |
| |
| |
The poetry of creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
Imagery and figurative language | |
| |
| |
Diction | |
| |
| |
Sound and rhythm | |
| |
| |
Writing yourself into creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
Ethics and edicts | |
| |
| |
Getting started writing short creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
Kick-Starts: Beginning your creative nonfiction | |
| |
| |
An Anthology of Short Creative Nonfiction | |
| |
| |
The Mute Sense | |
| |
| |
| |
Walkaways | |
| |
| |
| |
Westbury Court | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Tell One Bird from the Next | |
| |
| |
| |
El Toro Rojo | |
| |
| |
| |
Two Ways to Belong in America | |
| |
| |
| |
The Witching Hour | |
| |
| |
| |
Late July, 4:40 a.m. | |
| |
| |
| |
Elegy for an Optimist | |
| |
| |
| |
Morning Glory Harley | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Writing the Ten-Minute Play | |
| |
| |
A few things you should know about the ten-minute play | |
| |
| |
The elements of playwriting | |
| |
| |
The ten-minute play: three models | |
| |
| |
Sure Thing | |
| |
| |
| |
Trying to Find Chinatown | |
| |
| |
| |
The Divine Fallacy | |
| |
| |
| |
Structuring the ten-minute play | |
| |
| |
Creating believable characters | |
| |
| |
Writing convincing dialogue | |
| |
| |
Crafting a theme | |
| |
| |
Onstage: The elements of production | |
| |
| |
Stage | |
| |
| |
Sets | |
| |
| |
Props, constumes, and effects | |
| |
| |
Lights | |
| |
| |
Sounds | |
| |
| |
Actors | |
| |
| |
Directors | |
| |
| |
Producers | |
| |
| |
Audience | |
| |
| |
Getting started writing the ten-minute play | |
| |
| |
Kick-Starts: Beginning your play | |
| |
| |
Playscript Format: A Model | |
| |
| |
An Anthology of Ten-Minute Plays | |
| |
| |
Trash Anthem | |
| |
| |
| |
Now We're Really Getting Somewhere | |
| |
| |
| |
Tango Delta | |
| |
| |
| |
If Susan Smith Could Talk | |
| |
| |
| |
A few words of farewell | |
| |
| |
Glossary | |
| |
| |
Index | |