Category: Creative Writing

The Summer in Reading: August 7, 2021


i am reading this passage:

Sanford Meisner put it this way: “The emotional life of the scene is a river and the words are boats that float on the river.” I like to think of it as finding ways that the subtext can be louder than the text.

Weston, Judith. Directing Actors – 25th Anniversary Edition (p. 110). Michael Wiese Productions. Kindle Edition.

Poetry Lives at MassArt!

Each year students in the Advanced Poetry Workshop present their work in a final reading and journal. This year’s readers include:
Johanna Carr
Laryssa Filatov
Naomi Gabizon
Alex Gaudet
Linwood Giles
Jed Hardy
Xavia Hill Prater
Magnus Jonsson
Anukriti Kaushik
Samantha Knox
Dominique Litif-Nelson
Forest McKenzie
Gaby  Schaab
Yuan-Yuan Wang
Mandy Weaver

Children’s Literature: Phong Tuong, “Oasis In the Concrete City”

Phong Tuong, “Oasis In the Concrete City,” p. 3

Phong Tuong (’21) created this picture book for Professor Lin Haire-Sargeant’s Summer 2020 Continuing Education Children’s Literature class. In the story, a narrator recollects the joy he felt  as a child in a distant land when he played in his small oasis surrounded by tall, concrete buildings.

Read Oasis in the Concrete City Here

Children’s Literature: Kassandra Aloe “Lemi the Unicorn and the Little Lion”


Kassandra Aloe (ArtEd 2008)  created this picture book for Professor Lin Haire-Sargeant’s Summer 2020 Continuing Education Children’s Literature class. In the story, Lemi, a unicorn setting out for the Merry Meadows, helps an over-imaginative little lion regain his self-confidence and wonder. A delight!

Read Lemi the Unicorn here.