DISCLOSURES

Ep 101: Energize Your Writing by Memorizing Poems

by Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach

"Poetry, if we let it, can seep into us and change us with its funny, surprising, and serious ways of processing life and ideas."

My Family's Slave

by Alex Tizon - A feature piece for The Atlantic - his final story

"We spent our first decade in the country trying to fit in. Having a slave did not fit. Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from."

These Kids Made My Day

by Eric Metaxas (DO NOT MISS THIS VIDEO!"

"On my radio program, we held a contest for students to memorize and recite Paul Revere's Ride -- the entire poem! I doubted we would get much at all, but we ended up getting fifty entries of kids who had actually memorized THE WHOLE THING and recited it with all kinds of creativity."