The View From Here:
Lynne Fukuda

Please Plan Ahead for the January 2009 issue devoted to Dan Lukiv's e-book "An Introductory Creative Writing Program (Monograph Number Two)"

Now These Are the Names

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed.
English and Creative Writing
McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada
E-mail: lukivdan@shaw.ca

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Sore backs,
Stripes, the swish of
Whips, groans—

They were all fine with Pharaoh,
Who wanted newborn sons 
Tossed into the Nile,

But the “sickening dread,”
O the “sickening dread”!

It sat like sand in his
Mouth.

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Comments on Kozol and Suskind: Reflections on Teaching the City

Joan E. Aitken
Professor
Communication Arts
Park University
E-mail: joan.aitken@park.edu   

As a teacher, I have worked with students in kindergarten through graduate school contexts. I recently taught in a six-week summer program at an urban alternative high school, more than forty years after Detroit burned during rioting. Now I read that the Detroit School District is poised for state takeover because it is $1 billion in debt. In 1967, while in college studying to become a teacher, I was a long way from my Detroit roots.  Today, I feel even farther away.

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The…Flavor is the Life

Vicky Gilpin, PhD
English Instructor
Cerro Gordo High School
E-mail:  Gilpin_vicky@hotmail.com

  “Natalya, arise!”
            Sighing, Natalya attempted to burrow more deeply into the lush folds of her blankets and ignore the insistent voice calling her name. She did not even consider opening her eyes to figure the time, as she had shut the tapestries as tight as possible against the chill before she retired the previous evening.
            “Natalya, arise!”
            That voice! Cultured, sophisticated, and very much like a warm caress, it triggered a few half-forgotten pleasant memories, but sleeping felt like a priority.
            “Natalya, I know you are in there. Arise and meet your destiny!”

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