Author Archives: Adam Penna

Poem in Albatross #26

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Adam Penna

Thanks Richard Smyth for including “False Spring” in Albatross #26.

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The Newest Difference

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Adam Penna

This week started out slowly, that is, if I begin my week just after the last blog post.  Not the posting of the presentation I gave as part of the Faculty Association professional development panel, but the one called And … Continue reading →

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Yays & Nays: Making Love and Meaning Out of Nothing at All*

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Adam Penna

When SKG asked me to participate in this panel (or, rather, when I volunteered), I was pretty sure I knew what I was going to talk about. Early in my career here, at Suffolk, I was told there was no difference, … Continue reading →

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And And And

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Adam Penna

This week’s writing has been characterized by the feeling Dante describes in the first canto of the Inferno.  I find myself lost in a deep dark wood, fearing it’s a wood of error.  Still, I’m old enough and mature enough … Continue reading →

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On Sabbatical Number 2 and the Big Genre Change

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Adam Penna

I haven’t regularly blogged here for many years, despite the posts about publications and other things, but now is as good a time as any to begin again.  Or maybe it’s more accurate to say begin again again because I know there’s already … Continue reading →

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An Essay Published in Straight Forward Poetry

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Adam Penna

Thanks to Lindsey Lewis Smithson and Straight Forward for publishing my essay “What It Means to Be Contemporary: A Meditation.”  You can read it now here.  I wrote this some years ago while teaching a contemporary lit class.

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Poem Forthcoming in CPR

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Adam Penna

Thanks to Caron Andregg and the other editors of Cider Press Review for accepting “That’s What You Call a Baby Whale?” for publication.  For years, CPR has supported and published me.  Thanks to them I can boast two Pushcart Nominations. … Continue reading →

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An Essay on Risk Taking in the College Classroom and the Creative Writer’s Role in Fucking Shit Up*

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Adam Penna

An Introduction: Freshman writers have particular trouble with two aspects of writing, for which creative writers have answers.  The first is revision.  Still many composition professors assess product rather than process, and therefore stress editing rather than revision.  Creative writers, … Continue reading →

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Poem Appearing on TSR’s Site

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Adam Penna

Here’s a poem recently published in TSR and appearing now on their site.  Thanks to Lou Ann Walker, Julie Sheehan, and the other editors for their continued support.

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Another New Song

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Adam Penna

Here’s another new song.

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