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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Here Comes Another Lesson, Free Press (forthcoming) Orphan Trains; The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, Houghton Mifflin/U. Chicago Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Rescue, New York: Harmony Books FICTION "Love," Electric Literature “Sawed-in-Half Girl,” Antioch Review “Ziggurat,” The New Yorker “Disappearance and,” Conjunctions “White Fire,” TriQuarterly “I Think I’m Happier,” Threepenny Review “Trouble,” New England Review “Man in the Moon,” Conjunctions “He Will Not See Me Stopping Here,” Denver Quarterly “Bestiary,” New England Review "The Afterlife of Lytton Swain," The Massachusetts Review "What Makes You Think You Deserve This?" The Quarterly "Help," The Quarterly "Rescue," The Quarterly "Unknowing," Fiction International "Bell's Door," ISBN 0-943568-01-3 "On the Wing," Partisan Review POETRY “Natural Selection,” Knockout “What Next?” “Sweet Nothing,” Green Mountains Review “Cottage,” AGNI/Online “Biology,” Poetry “Uz,” “Song of Songs,” “Promises,” “Idolatry,” “Eternal Return,” “Dust and Ashes.” Missouri Review “Atheism,” “Too Late to Say,” Knockout "Temporary Moments," Journal of Temporary Culture "William Dunn," Hubbub (poem NONFICTION “Against Assessment,” Beck, Heather, ed. Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education “Charles Loring Brace,” Shweder, Richard A., ed. The Chicago Companion to the Child “Milosz’s Choice; An Investigation of Sentimentality,” AGNI When Children Relied on Faith-Based Agencies," New York Times "No Place Like Home," Chicago Tribune Magazine "The Orphan Trains of Charles Loring Brace," Doubletake "Words and the World at P.S. 313," Teachers & Writers Newsletter “On the Outside Looking In by Cristina Rathbone,” New York Times Book Review "Playwriting to Compassion," Education Week "Problems Schools Can't Solve," New York Times "That's the Way Life Really Is; Violence in the Classroom," Culturefront "Death in the Everyday Schoolroom," The Nation |
My WorksI THINK I'M HAPPIER
I think I’m happier than I used to be, my father said. O, Christ, Dad! Why shouldn’t I be happier? Haven’t I got the right? For Godsakes! I said. He was silent the rest of the way home... From YELLOW VALLEY
Help yourself to the blond fields, to the tractor rattle. A querulous jay was placed on that fire-stripped oak just for you. Likewise, the clouds were inflated and that jet trail scratched across the empty blue this very morning... MILOSZ'S CHOICE; An Investigation of Sentimentality
SEVERAL YEARS AGO I had an argument with a woman about Czeslaw Milosz. I no longer remember the woman’s name but I do remember vividly where we were: L'Isle sur la Sorgue, a city of canals and creaking waterwheels in the south of France... WORDS AND THE WORLD AT A NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL
In 1988, just before I began teaching writing in the New York City public schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, I was feeling pretty confident. I had just sold my first book -- a short story collection -- to a major publisher, I had a masters in English literature, and I had worked for eight years as a freelance journalist. It seemed to me that -- at least when it came to teaching elementary school -- I knew everything I needed to know about writing... ORPHAN TRAINS - Prologue
PROLOGUE: Working For Human Happiness On the morning of September 24, 1854, forty-five children sat in the front benches of a meeting house in Dowagiac, Michigan. Most were between ten and twelve years old, though at least one was six, and a few were as old as fifteen.... |
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