This week a new issue of the Alaska Quarterly Review arrived with conjoined essays of mine inside bearing the title, “Autism, Poetry, and the Art of Transformation.” In these essays, I explore how my students, who often struggle mightily with what professionals call “cognitive flexibility,” habitually explore change in and through their writing. The poem is a space where they can bring change into their world on their own terms, rehearsing transformation so that they can better embody it when the time comes.
A Brand New Outfit
A Brand New Outfit
A Brand New Outfit
This week a new issue of the Alaska Quarterly Review arrived with conjoined essays of mine inside bearing the title, “Autism, Poetry, and the Art of Transformation.” In these essays, I explore how my students, who often struggle mightily with what professionals call “cognitive flexibility,” habitually explore change in and through their writing. The poem is a space where they can bring change into their world on their own terms, rehearsing transformation so that they can better embody it when the time comes.