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		<title>Some poems I&#8217;ve written &#8220;recently&#8221; and &#8220;published&#8221; on my Tumblr</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habitat. Your Roast Potatoes. Would you rather. We are throwing a pot-luck party. I have started sending other poems to magazines. This is excitary.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=401&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Absence and &#8220;Poetry&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Since I last blogged I have been: working; teaching; finishing teaching; sort of doing my PhD; Tumbling; going on small holidays; living in New York for a month; cycling; staring &#8212; those kind of things. Over at my shop blog there&#8217;s some stuff about Bookfest; series of bookish events I put on in Oxfam. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=392&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email to friend at Strathclyde university about &#8216;contemporary literature&#8217; and attendant issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No edits. &#8220;OK it&#8217;s party time. I think your first paragraph hits on what I&#8217;ve found to be the biggest issue in teaching English so I can see why it would resonate into research/reading too, how we have this divide between what we like to read and what we think we are supposed to read. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=389&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Teaching&#8221; &#8220;Postmodernism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my class on postmodernism was on the postmodern short story and one of the big lessons I wanted them to take away from it is that we should move away from a reading position that looks for &#8216;meaning&#8217; and switch to something more critical about &#8216;how we arrive at meaning&#8217; so my idea with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=387&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Moody on teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if we understood the workshop to be not tidy and orderly but large, unpredictable, and uncertain? What if long monologues about German metaphysics could sit right beside arguments from the stylebook of Flannery O&#8217;Connor? What if the worst story of the semester were subjected to a half hour of sentence-diagramming exercises? What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=383&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Stream of consciousness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did Modernist short stories in class this week. I didn&#8217;t really dig the stories (Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf). I decided to have some fun with &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8221; as a literary technique. I wanted to simultaneously suggest the possibility for language to represent something approximating &#8216;real&#8217; thought processes and illustrate the impossibility of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=378&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandwich Sunday Reprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice when you don&#8217;t have to read papers or blogs because your friends fill your Facebook feed with everything you need to know/see/read/hear. The following things were all either liked by at least five people or were posted by several of my friends separately at various points throughout the day. Isabella Rossilini and Natural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=372&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He tells Green that his phobic fear of timepieces stems from [his stepfather, [an Amtrak train conductor [with deeply unresolved issues [which he used to make Lenz wind his pocketwatch and polish his fob daily with a chamois cloth [and nightly make sure his watch's displayed time was correct to the second [or else he'd [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=373&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Story Quiz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did this today at the end of the first term of teaching this class. Dumping text here, cos, you know, why not. Short Story, 13 December 2010. First semester revision. A literary revue, in three stages. Stage 1: short story theory/critical methods. a) Name all seven of Propp&#8217;s character roles. b) &#8216;The short story is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=365&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Realism.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Class on realism. Discussed narrative detail. &#8216;Crucial details&#8217;. Language articulating our perception of the world. Did an exercise to start where everyone wrote down their impressions of the room. This is my transcription of their keywords. The rest of the class was OK. We spent a bit much time doing this. I worry about their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5236060&amp;post=361&amp;subd=looceefir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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