The Role of the Poet

**Engaging Ideas--The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom.--John C. Bean.

The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty (The Elements of Composition)

The American Autobiography, edited by Albert E. Stone. (1981)

Kathy Acker: Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels & My Mother: A Demonology

Bowie's Ziggy Startdust (song)

Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run With The Wolves.

Flook, Maria. My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance. From the point of view of herself & her sister.

Temple Grandon's "Thinking in Pictures."

Hogan, Linda. The Woman Who Watches Over the World. 2001.(Chickasaw w/ memory problems)

Manseau, Peter. Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son. Free Press.

McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood.

Miskimen, Mel C. Cop's Kid.

The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia
by Charles Montgomery

Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery. OUP.

does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. edited by Lisa Moore.

Smith, Patricia. "Persona Poem." Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry. Boston Globe scandal.

Smith and Watson. Reading Autobiography.

Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Willard, Frances E. How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th-Century Woman.