
In the midst of the school year’s whirlwind, I often forget about the world beyond campus, and I see this happen to my students as well. It is easy to fixate on the work at hand and forget that we are situated in a location with a broader community, and that our academic work could very well deal with issues occurring in our immediate surroundings.
Brenda Hillman’s prose poem “To the Writing Students at Orientation” from her book Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University Press, 2013) is a powerful illustration of how to break out of this myopia by balancing professional responsibilities, local landscapes, and the world at large.
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