Katie Budris

Best commercial ever? Definitely one of the best speeches ever. Thank you Dead Poets Society. "We don't read and write poetry because...

I was invited by my best and oldest friend Kari Hall , who happens to be a very talented artist, to join a blog hop project. Thank you,...

I was an English major. My husband was an English major. Some of my best friends were English majors. Now my 19 year old niece is in...

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of Issue 8 of Glassworks Magazine. Working with the student editors on this through Rowan...

In honor of National Poetry month and what I have affectionately come to know as Poetry Blitz Day, a poem: This week the letter from my...

The quote in the title of this post struck me as light and humorous, but simultaneously truthful, effective, and important. I clicked on...

To wrap up the semester, I usually ask my students to write in response to a handful of self-reflective questions and then share aloud....

Near the end of every semester, I deal with feelings of apprehension. I collect papers from students that do not demonstrate they are...

Can't quite put my finger on why, but I really enjoyed today's Poem-A-Day in honor of National Poetry Month. Postcard to I. Kaminsky from...

Why don't students know how to cite research anymore? I would estimate that 75% of my students each semester do not know how to put...

Kind, unsolicited words about my World Literature 2 class: "I absolutely love your class. I love our readings and I love how you go into...

I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile now... but life (and laziness) gets the best of me.  This semester I’ve been teaching 2...

"Let us remember... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which...

"The reinvention, the making of a poetry for our time, is the only thing that makes poetry matter. And that means, literally, making...