In this essay, I explore my relationship with writing throughout my life and how teaching writing can numb your creative expression.

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Please enjoy the other articles and the poetry in the Review. I especially point you to the poem by Dawn McDonald, "The Jobs of Poets."

Enjoy my essay as published in Change Seven Literary Magazine (Summer 2023). It's about the downsizing process related to books, but it's also about my relationship with books, what they meant to me then and what they mean to me now. Unfortunately, for some reason, this issue has not been archived like the other issues, so I can only provide you with the link to my essay not the entire journal, which means you cannot read the other literature in this issue. 

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I began this essay at a writing workshop in January 2017. I had just ended my first semester back in the classroom after a fourteen-year absence, so the experience was still fresh in my mind when I wrote about it in response to a prompt given by the facilitator of the workshop. The essay is about the last day of the 2016 fall  semester, when I wanted to end the semester in some kind of meaningful way for both my students and for me. Find the essay here.