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Class List
EWRT 41: Introduction to Poetry Writing
EWRT 40: Introduction to Fiction Writing
EWRT 1B: Reading and Writing about Literature
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Welcome! Are you considering an English writing class? If so, you have come to the right place. De Anza College offers a huge variety of English courses, so you are sure to find something here that meets your needs and desires.
I currently am teaching EWRT 41, Introduction to Poetry Writing, here at De Anza and have taught EWRT 41, Introduction to Fiction Writing here as well. I also teach EWRT 1B, Reading and Writing about Literature, which is a really fun class. Please join me for EWRT 1B (next up: winter 2007 at 3:45 on Tuesdays & Thursdays) for an exciting romp through works by Shirley Jackson, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kate Chopin, W. S. Merwin, and many other renowned authors. We will also spend plenty of time on some of the best works of literature by currently publishing authors -- there is a lot of great literature in today's market, and we are going to celebrate it!
Were you hoping to find out something more about me? Okay, here are a few things: I am the Editor in Chief of The National Poetry Review, editor of the poetry anthology And We The Creatures: Fifty-one Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation, author of Let's Not Sleep (2002), Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (2005), Odyssea (forthcoming in spring 2007), and two new poetry manuscripts (C'mon, Knopf, you know you want them). My poems have appeared in various magazines including The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, The American Poetry Journal, Smartish Pace, et cetera, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. In addition to teaching here at De Anza, I also teach English grammar, composition, and literature at Hartnell college. I have an M. F. A. in creative writing - poetry. (What's an M. F. A.? The acronym stands for the Master of Fine Arts degree, which is a terminal degree, as is a Ph.D., that requires 20-30 units more than an M. A.; some of those additional units focus on the creative aspects of the field of study in addition to analytical and lit-crit aspects.)
Not enough info? You were looking for something more personal, perhaps? All righty. I'm an animal lover and an animal rights supporter, a vegetarian, a goofball (my favorite television shows are Scrubs, The Colbert Report--along with The Daily Show field interviews--,Curb Your Enthusiasm, and --RIP-- Seinfeld), a bit of a clutz (even though I was a dancer for many years), and (gasp!) a feminist. Yes, a feminist. Honestly, that word gets much too much bad press. Does feminism bug you? Yet De Anza is all about the open-minded life, right? Join one of my classes and perhaps you will come to see why being a feminist is something good--for men as well as for women.
Would you like to know anything else? Just email me: professorcjsage@yahoo.com .
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