Seven Valleys Writing Project Teachers Write On, and Read

Publication: The Post-Standard
Date: July 20, 2008

Summary: Teachers enrolled in a summer institute with the Seven Valleys Writing Project (New York) get put on the spot when reading their own work.

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It's a Friday afternoon in July, far from the classroom. In an eclectic coffeehouse in Cortland, it's time for teachers enrolled in a writing institute at SUNY Cortland to be put on the spot.

They take turns during an open mike session and read from their own work: essays, excerpts from a novel, short stories, even an epic poem in rap.

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