WRITING SAMPLES        

POETRY "Appetite of a Dead Connoisseur."  Previously featured in The Red River Review, Masatadon Dentist, and Laugh it Off Anthology. "Under My Bootsoles." Originally featured in Zygote in My Coffee. "Put Down Your Bugle, O Bard. Oiginally featured in Slow Trains Literary Journal. "If Walt Whitman Was a Woman in the Twenty-first Century."  (Scroll down.) Originally featured in the Fifth Street Review and reprinted in Slow Trains Literary Journal. "Sages," Originally Featured in Zygote in My Coffee.  "Part and Parcel" and "The Riverbed." Originally featured in Theives Jargon. "Part and Parcel" also appeared in Syntax.  "Departures." Originally featured in Literary Visions and reprinted in Zygote in My Coffee.  "Tourism. Originally featured in Zygote in My Coffee. "The Love Poem of Katie and Jay in Both Voices." "Precipice," featured in Slow Trains Literary Journal. More to come when published, as well as the ones I won't send out. STORIES The Offering. Originally featured in Flash Me Magazine.  "Willies." Originally featured in Slow Trains Literary Journal.  "Open the Door."  Originally featured in The Sidewalk's End.  "My Window, My Threshold."   Originally featured in Poetic Diversity.    "My Name is Valenza Will." Originally featured in The Lampshade.  "A Recurring Question,"  originally featured in The Seeker Magazine and was reprinted in The Taj Mahal Review in June 2006.              ESSAYS "The Paradox of Freedom: Engaging the Tension between Representation and Canonization in the Classroom." The Scholarship of Teaching: Faculty Development Through Cross-Campus Collaboration Volume.   Fall 2007. "Teaching Notes on Walt Whitman's 'I Sing the Body Electric,' "   Featured in Radical Teacher: a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching." Summer 2007. "Teaching Notes on Spike Lee's Bamboozled." Featured in Radical Teacher: a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching." Issue 75. The Beat Poets." Featured in Facts on File: A Companion to Twentieth Century American Literature. "Teaching Notes on Sherman Alexie's Short Stories." Featured in Radical Teacher: a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, Issue 72.  Or click here. "Towards an Active Utopia: Truth-making in Menchu, Stoll, and the Classroom.” Featured inThe Journal of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. "The Huge Opening and Closing Sky: An Encounter with Pueblo and Hopi Poets." Presented atThe American Indian Language Development Institute. "Human Nature Has No Hierarchy: Reflections on Freire's Theory of Conscientization and Belief in Change."  Presented at The University of Arizona.