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Category: Christina Lee Barnes

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WITS Voices: Writing Advice from 10th Graders

February 3, 2020

By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence I’m often asked if my time in the WITS classroom helps inspire my own writing. While I haven’t yet written very much that is directly about my work with the students, I do draw inspiration from the willingness that students show to try out prompts, to dive in and […]

WITS Voices: Poetry as Disruption

March 13, 2019

By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first-ever WITS residency started off with a fire drill. I’d made it about halfway through my introduction when the loudspeaker cut me off with a garbled a reminder that students would file out to the field in the last ten minutes of class. Covert murmurs of excitement rippled […]

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Congratulations to upcoming SAL speakers Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, and Richard Powers--and all the nominees--who have been named to the Longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction! See the full list at: http://ow.ly/UjUZ50Gc3bG

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On Tuesday 9/21 SAL & @CaseyGrants co-present a night with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta). Taylor will discuss her book "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" and how the cost of policing underfunds us all. Register (FREE): http://ow.ly/WXTa50FUq5x

16 Sep

Hooray--NBA day! Special shout-out to @WavePoetry and #DouglasKearney for "Sho." We were honored to present Douglas last year for a talk with the @BWLectures. Which of these poets should we bring next year?