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It’s actually FEWER Misérables

February 1, 2026 On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...

February 1, 2026

Sharing the good stuff—email from a senior in my creative writing class. If you don’t love to read, how can you write?

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America. Visual metaphor.

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I’d love to know which poems and how you set them up for success!

A tutu! Of course!

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Easy! The answer is Tom Waits (includes Leonard Cohen).

@marcusluther.bsky.social I used your “Where I’m From” Gallery Walk lesson this week. Students noticed how much they shared as a community. They were inspired to return to their own poems after witnessing other poems. Thank you!

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

I’m sad.

I love the book and usually offer it as a book club selection. The audio version read by him is superb. And, the book must have been written with a ghost writer. Am I wrong? Does it matter? It nags at me.

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He has agency on the battlefield and as a title-holding man. She lacks agency as a woman. She has ambition to compensate for her lack of agency. His agency is challenged by the witches interference. Her ambition drives the story. His undermined agency drives him.

Lady Macbeth is team ambition; Macbeth is team agency.

was a brilliant way to set a dark and twisted mood and foreground the supernatural; we more deeply empathize with a murderer who has been touched by demonic forces beyond his control. Also, good theater!

Double, double toil and trouble

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Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat

Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!

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Also, a student submitted a short story in which the main character is inexplicably named, “Beet.” Automatic A.

Lesson plan, please!

Where is the link? Thanks!

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