Ending a tumultuous year in the world at large, the Winter issue of Witness is filled with stark dilemmas. Jennifer Doe chronicles a lifetime of #MeToo incidents triggered by the election of Donald Trump in the essay “Any Woman Can Write This.” In Alex Madison’s short story “Penguin Classic,” a rivalry between teenage girls takes a dark turn at a lake house. And Adam Greenburg's poetry series "from Fortune" is assembled using only language from Fortune 500 company names. ...

This book is designed for teachers, administrators, and staff development coordinators who are interested in a resource that provides an overview of current issues and the answers to some difficult educational questions. Through the use of case studies, current information, and reader exercises, this collection provides a manageable developmental resource for effective instructional practices and promotes the understanding of special topics and questions faced by the classroom teacher. The...

Dare to Enter the Shadowed World of Poe… ️ From the master of the macabre comes the ultimate anthology of dark imagination and psychological depth. "The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together every chilling, mysterious, and poetic story that has cemented Poe as a literary legend. Inside This Definitive Collection: The Tell-Tale Heart – A descent into guilt and madness The Fall of the House of Usher – A gothic tale of family, fear, and ruin The Black Cat – The embodiment ...

People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to the creation of an effective grading scale, this book covers critically important aspects of organizing and teaching your curriculum.Suggestions for preparing for the first day of the semester will make all semesters ru...

This books explains to 4-8 year olds in a simple, playful way how to work with fear issues. The eleventh book in the award winning Howard B. Wigglebottom series. Tips and lessons are included. Print a poster and download for free the Courage song at www.wedolisten.org

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Wrecker’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Stevenson includes original annotations and illustra...

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having writ...

Howard was being bullied at school. His ituition told him to let the teacher know. Instead he chose different strategies and they all failed. He finally told the teacher and she took action to make him feel okay and safe. Tips and Lessons are included. The third book in the award winning Howard B. Wigglebottom series. Teacher and counselor endorsed. Print a poster and download the free Be Brave Be Bold song @ www.wedolisten.org

" Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work." — The Washington PostWith work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is the definitive collection for the contemporary poetic landscape. Includes astonishing uncollected work from masters of the form, as well as breathtaking new...

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, until, in a process of call and response and unprecedented collaboration, 80 poems had been co...

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of th...