The Education of Oronte Churm

Are you Charlie Bucket enough to get the job?

A new collection of essays from The University of Michigan Press's excellent Poets on Poetry Series.

Guest writer Steve Davenport returns with the second part of his essay.

Guest contributor Steve Davenport, Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, counts the ways he and his dissertation got to know each other.

In which the power of commercial fiction is harnessed for pedagogical ends.

Well, the title should get you started reading, right?

Writer and teacher Debra Monroe, author of five previous books, shares a chapter from her new memoir-in-progress, about being the first in her family to go to college.

We talk SEC football, coaches who dress like pro-golfers, getting an MFA, and comic novels.