author photo by Steve Simmerman
Other Writings on the Internet:
"Going Backstage in Students' Lives" at The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Diagramming Won't Help This Situation" at The Writer's Almanac
"Why I Don't Write" -- an essay at Eclectica (Oct/Nov 2003)
"The End is Near" and "A Tonal Requiem"-- two poems at Paradigm
"Writing What I Want in a Publish-or-Perish World" -- an essay at Academe
"In Praise of the Rut" -- an essay at Eclectica (Jul/Aug 2009)