Letters from the Editors

Brenda Miller As of this writing, we’ve just returned from the annual Associate Writing Programs conference, held this year close to home: just over the border in Vancouver, B.C. Over the course of four hectic days, thousands of writers, teachers, editors, publishers, and students swarmed through the Hyatt and the Fairmont hotels in the downtown …

Spring 2005: Issue 55 Brenda Miller “Tread Softly” Last spring I taught a new course on writing in collaboration with the visual arts, or “ekphrastic” writing.  My students and I had a marvelous time as we visited with artists in the classroom and wrote our creative responses to their work.  We tried to ignite what …