In Philip Levine's post-war poem, Belle Isle, 1949, two strangers meet, swim, and part, exploring themes of connection, boundaries, and where we come from. This video segment comes from Poetry Everywhere.

See the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall in Washington D.C. through the eyes of war veteran and contemporary poet Yusef Komunyakaa. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Komunyakaa reads his poem Facing It.

See an animated version of Emily Dickinson's poem I Started Early Took my Dog. This video segment from Poetry Everywhere uses animation to illustrate Dickinson's poem about the sea.

Explore the power of memory, irony, and ordinary objects. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Billy Collins reads his humorous poem, The Lanyard, about a childhood gift he made for his mother.

In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the playwright Tony Kushner reads an excerpt from A Passage to India, celebrating the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal and the opportunity it presented to connect civilizations.

This is one chapbook, of two, from Paul Reid's Introduction to Creative Writing course, taught at Chippewa Valley Technical College during the Fall 2022 semester.  It includes prose as well as illustrations created by students enrolled in the course.  A physical copy of this title is available in the CVTC Library at the Business Education Center Campus.

This is the second chapbook, of two, from Paul Reid's Introduction to Creative Writing course, taught at Chippewa Valley Technical College during the Fall 2022 semester.  It includes prose as well as illustrations created by students enrolled in the course.  A physical copy of this title is available in the CVTC Library at the Business Education Center Campus.

In this lesson, students learn how adaptations, limiting factors, and predator prey relationships all affect the survival of plants and animals. Predator-prey relationships are simulated in two games, where students record their experiences and display data in story and chart/graph form, and explore the adaptations of animals in terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Extension activities include habitat investigations in natural areas.

This course is an examination of the formal structural and textual variety in poetry. Students engage in extensive practice in the making of poems and the analysis of both students' manuscripts and 20th-century poetry. The course attempts to make relevant the traditional elements of poetry and their contemporary alternatives. There are weekly writing assignments, including some exercises in prosody.