Come out and hear me read “Pink,” my contribution to Peter Murphy‘s lovely anthology CHALLENGES FOR THE DELUSIONAL II, by Diode Editions, at the Rectangle Studio: 540 A Freeman Street, Orange, NJ.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Entrenched Racist Myths

Male Authors Don’t Know How to Write Women

If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women 

Roxanne Gay Answers Questions About Race and Writing 

Human Rights Campaign website

Read article here from Barrelhouse Mag

I’ll be giving at workshop at GrubStreet‘s Muse and the Marketplace on Saturday, April 7th. My talk will focus on writing and identity.

More info here. 

Event details here.

Philadelphia City Institute Free Library, 1905 Locust Street, 5:30pm Monday, January 29th

Here’s the Winter Issue of Philadelphia Stories.

The article is Here. 

The song is here:

Poem here. 

 And don’t forget about the issue’s launch party, Monday, January 29th at the Philadelphia City Institute (I’ll be reading). More info here.

Moonstone Poetry Presents Janet Fishman and me, at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street in Philadelphia, PA. 7pm.

BEFORE YOU ENTER TONIGHT:

1. share annotated bibliography assignment

CLASS AGENDA:

COURSE MEETS in D18 tonight!!! We will meet next two Mondays in D18 lab!

Rate my class, please. Do it here. 

1. Field Trip to C/D atrium
2. Questions on previous assignments (mixing the appeals mini lecture)
3. Upcoming assignments and Monday Class specs
4. Plagiarism Activity
5. more Objective Correlative

ASSIGNMENT, ESSAY DRAFT FOR MONDAY, NOV. 27th

Formal Essay #6 (Last essay before final): Four page minimum, APA formatted works cited, at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed sources.

OPTION A: Write the essay you prepped in your annotated bibliography.

OPTION B: If you’re tired of sex…

Write an essay that answers the following: Is college worth it? Is college still an important step in life, or has it become COMPLETELY OVER-RATED?

If you Google “college not worth it,” you get resources from the CNN, Forbes, Fortune & PBS. That might be a good place to start.

SPECIAL CLASS ASSIGNMENT

Family Concept Challenge: This family challenge represents the most logical fallacies that occur in argumentation.

1. Get in your families.

2. Your family will receive an “fallacy” from the ancient art of Rho-Sham-Beau Circle of Death.

3. Research the term. Understand what the fallacy is, provide the class with at least three examples of how the fallacy might be used in argumentation. One should be a poor example (obvious), one a strong example (not so obvious) and one should be REAL (researched).

The class will be quizzed on these fallacies on Wednesday.  Besides the quiz grades, each family will receive a grade for presenting.

You will be graded on the following: 

1. How well do you understand the fallacy?
2. How well did you communicate that understanding (does the class understand?)?
3. How good was your visual representation of the problem?
4. How good are EACH of your three examples?
5. Did your presentation include each family member equally?

The problems to chose from: 

1. ad hominem (Fam Squad)
2. ad populum (Por Favor)
3. bandwagon (Blog Gods)
4. hasty generalization (Fire Duckies)
5. non sequitur (Aluminum Foil)
6. post hoc
7. strawman fallacy (Inklings)

Presentations will take place on Monday, April 23, 2018