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Tuning in from Albany, NY. I’m a poet (MFA) who has written many poems about my daughter and mother.

Jericho Brown, this was a speech fit for a history book about humanity. Just beautiful, thank you very much.

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I didn't quite understand at the end why did she say it was fascinating that the people falsely enticed to N. Korea.

Hi there. Thank you so much for sharing this insightful dialogue - I loved hearing your insights. I'm interested in using a quote from this in something I'm writing, but I want to ensure I get permission first. Could you let me know how I can DM the organisers to request this? Many thanks

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Will you all take questions?

I think of walking with my grandfather as a small child, he would be called to neighboring farms to divine for water. He had what I later found out to be a willow dowsing rod - which he kept oiled in a linen satchel. As we walked the land, me having no idea of what was going on until later in life, except for a sense of magic- he passed this treasured relic on to me after his passing. My question for you all is- what tools or interstitial objects do you employ to aid you in your quest to gain access to the greater being?

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Literature is not meant to make everyone "comfortable." Resilience is, I daresay, more important to a young person's psyche than being continually reassured. Telling students what they can and cannot write about rather than discussing various means of approach to difficult subject matter is a mistake, and a chilling one. Students are not "harmed" by reading. This is such an embarrassing idea.

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'Responsible representation' would also seem to be a very chilling notion -- the idea that there's a set of permissible ways to portray a certain class or type of person. Again, entirely antithetical to the purpose and joy of literature.

After all, such a position would seem to be almost exactly antithetical to the purpose of literature -- to expand, to surprise, to enliven one's sense of the possible.

Surprising to hear unnecessary and over-cautious content notes being called a 'win-win' -- I was sure, John, you were going to say this was a danger of CWs.

"A woman brown, and fat, and displeasing, dissatisfied..." I see her. I feel that. ~ MJT

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So great to hear all of you.

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I hold a B.S.E.E. and a M.S.C.S but learned the most in my last 2 years of high school from 2 former Navy training instructors as a vocational school. The were wise and neither went to college.

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You killed it, Summer! Bravo!

Kara, I hope to read what you publish in the full form when that time comes. My own life as a Mom included having our son of 11+ become blinded and then a year later become the first blind child to use a computer to ‘read’ and do much of his middle-school homework. That included playing audio’ed adventure games and using other adapted software for practice himself what he otherwise did mostly with readers and family. Ultimately, in the early 1980’s our family formed a 501(c)3 entity to create talking spelling checking (at first) and then more sophisticated solutions for these youth as they moved toward high school and college. Within all that with 5 staff and 200 volunteers helped our non-profit create a 1500 special needs software/hardware/peripheral product catalog to be used by schools and parents with children and young adults from age 1.5 through 21 who had special needs to access the learning they wanted. We pioneered with some of these betas and product ideas with Vanderbilt Univ, Tennessee School for the Blind, Texas School for the Blind in Texas, school districts, and later with specific agencies who served those with CP or were otherwise speech involved, or who were low-vision or deaf. Besides equipping us, Steve Jobs privately answered many questions for us and introduced us to tech talents who could write the programming and build the ‘gadgets’ (peripherals - that supported eye-gaze, for example.) At that early time, we used robotic speech, not because we did not want to use recorded ‘human’ speech or it could not technically be done within the available bandwidth yet, but because Steve told us the children and youth would naturally educationally grasp the point with what WAS available faster, better, and more accurately, which Street Electronics had already developed. While Steve definitely wanted all this to happen - so the software and all the hardware and synthesizer and switch (etc) device development, et al, so Apple computers could more successfully (and more easily) be developed to be compatible with all of it. (A little later Compaq - based in Houston, helped us with the PC world of similar needs.) In short, Jobs was very honest and told me he personally would privately help us get the computers we needed for our staff, experimentation, and volunteers (and for computer trade shows to demonstrate for school programs, but in those early days, Apple could not do the development. What he did, instead, was lead us to the very best people who also wanted and needed such to come to market - and very often, these were within professional families who had children or other relatives with special educational access needs. He kept his word on this: we never told others or badgered Apple (or Steve) to help us - but we responded positively to all he also asked us periodically to do - like come to Apple’s booth at major trade shows to demonstrate the special technology. Ultimately, Dragon-Dictate type speech recognition evolved - when NASA in Houston had engineers who needed it to, for example, and our bottom-line goal escalated = transferring much of this for all children/youth - and even in some cases to NASA and other governmental uses, and in several cases even to corporate and legal dictation. While I’ve spoken of all this since the early-to-mid ‘80’s, I’ve not written about it until now. What i recall is we created part of that software and some of those devices (similar to eye gaze and switches) for Paul, a vivacious teen with quite severe CP whose Dad was a pediatrician and his Mom was amongst many other things, an Arch-Angel with a great sense of humor, and a terrific capability to help Paul translate himself for and with others. At first, we heard “garble” but his Mom and sister and Dad could understand him, so our team knew we could learn to also. Gradually we learned Paul not only recalled every ounce of math in application he had used and was more than ready for high-school algebra and higher math, and once we had the whole alphabet with punctuation ready for him (via highlighted eyegaze he could control, he also had accurate and involved ideas he himself could finally bring to life with an adapted keyboard and his pointer device. It was thrilling to hear how your family is now using some derivative of this technology. To finalize, I loved both your collective piece of work, your approach, style and consideration for your son and his expression and his experiences documented correctly to his mind.

So terrific to intro all writers, regardless of age, experience, genre, to some of the concepts of constructive workshopping and positive feedback - and ideally, early encouragement. And … if it comes up appropriately and/or is sought constructive = commentary for considered alternatives.

Yay, Summer! Such a strong essay.

Really enjoyed this....gives me a lot to chew on! Can relate to some (the young man, Sam's poem about his dad the hunter, certainly Sandy as think we are of the very same generation) as well as give me ideas on what might be incorporated in some of my own work - as well as new ones in the future. Really, really GOOD!

Enjoy this work tremendously. Thank you to all the writers and for the good questions.

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