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...wake of the events of Sept. 11, writing is more important than ever as a way for kids to explore and make sense of some of their feelings. "Parents might want to encourage children to try various 'writing exercises,' rather than ask a child to 'write what you feel,'" says Nancy Shapiro, who heads Teachers & Writers, a program that sends writers into New York City public schools and publishes books about teaching writing. "Writing exercises help the child focus on the writing task and let the feelings and ideas flow." Shapiro suggests, for example, an exercise based on Kenneth Koch...
Felicia Blum, who has taught a creative-writing class for middle school students at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 12 years, says a good exercise is to invite kids to write a letter to someone they love. Writing, she says, is "a wonderful alternative to MTV, to technology. It's slow and thoughtful...
...here we are. After three of perhaps the most emotionally and psychologically draining days of my life, I have arrived at a conclusion: There’s a reason these guys are professional critics and I write for a college newspaper. Or, put more bluntly, the movie’s not very good...
...filing when it happened: Ears plugged with the Finnish teen pop sensation I had to write a blurb about that week; mind occupied with little other than filing Lil’ Kim’s press photo between Lil’ Bow Wow’s and Lil’ Troy’s. My editor at my summer internship at the Village Voice was on the phone nearby, his voice muffled by my Walkman warbles...
...high school’s wane, though, I’d gained sufficient distance to be granted a review of Strange Little Girls, Amos’ 2001 effort, for the Village Voice. The writing I’d done for them up until that point was a cache of femaleness, stemming largely from my avowed interest in feminism. By some accident of good luck, I’d already been assigned to write about Amos when Atlantic Records announced that the album would be a collection of covers written by men like Eminem and Tom Waits and bands like Slayer...