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On teaching I am a published poet who teaches creative writing, especially poetry. My pedagogy is based almost exclusively on my own frustrations and successes as a writer. Like most teachers, I try to create courses which could provide for students what I wish I had been provided for me (keeping in mind the dangers of hindsight). For instance, I often wish I'd assimilated all kinds of poetic form as early as possible—because I think that I might have found my own strengths as a poet sooner, with a greater range of models. Therefore, my workshops tend to be explorations in reading as much as they are attempts to facilitate supportive environments for writing. I don't teach anything I can't get passionate about.
Download an excerpt of Michael White's work. Notable Books by North Carolina Writers: June 2006
Publications Re-entry, University of North Texas Press, 2006, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize Palma Cathedral, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry, 1998 The Island, Copper Canyon Press, 1992
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