Recent Publishings from the OWP Community
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Over the last year amidst the challenges of teaching throughout a pandemic, the Oregon Writing Project community continued their practice of writing. OWP is fortunate to have many teachers who not only work in their classrooms, but who share their knowledge and skills during workshops, summer curriculum camps, and in writing articles and poems.
Below is a collection of recent publications and other accolades by OWP teachers and coaches.
Alexis Abrams, Can You Hear Me Now? OCTE, Spring/Summer 2021
Katy Alexander, Sin Fronteras: Writing Poetry About Borderlands to Bring Down Walls and Build Connections
Rethinking Schools. Volume 36, No. 1 Fall 2021.
Linda Christensen, Essay Unbound: Opening the Canon of Literary Analysis Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 3 Spring 2021
Matthew Friday, who currently works as a performing arts teacher in Bend, just had a poem accepted in a journal called Dawntreader, which is based in the UK.
Tim Gillespie, cofounder of OWP, published Corona Two Step and in The Poeming Pigeon: From Pandemic to Protest. Also, Tim published a poetry book in 2020 called Old Stories, Some Not True and other poems (Moonpath Press).
Jennifer Hehnke teaches at Eugene International HS. She facilitated meetings using OWP lessons with her 9th grade Global Lit team as they re-envisioned an opening unit on identity.
Kara Hinderlie-Stroman, Say Their Names
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 1 Fall 2020
Julia Kirkpatrick, To the Alumni Class of First Semester, 2020
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 3 Spring 2021
Gretchen Kraig-Turner, Honoring Exonerees: Poetry and Art as a Background Activity for a DNA Electrophoresis Lab
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 2 Winter 2020-2021
Joan Maiers published two poems in Hubbub’s final issue, and 2 poems in Now We Heal, an Anthology of Hope, edited by Jean Sheldon and Veronica Esagui. She also contributed poetry to the quarterly print and online publication, Green Living Journal.
Joan Maiers coordinated “Pinot, Passion, and Poetry”, an outdoor reading event at Helvetia winery featuring Barbara Drake, Leah Stenson and David Ruteizer, with music provided by Elias Alexander. Free and open to the public.
Willow McCormick, OWP coach currently works as an All-School Equity Coach at Oregon Episcopal School, wrote a K-5 gender expression and identity curriculum for the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) which will be published on ODE’s Open Learning Hub by the end of the year.
Mercedes Muñoz, Lessons in 2020
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 1 Fall 2020.
Catherine Nguyen, OWP Spanish Language Arts teacher at Roosevelt HS and a stand up comedian, has a new project—a PBS Kids web series called Mega Wow. It features fun science experiments and activities kids can try at home. She was the host and one of the writers of the show. We made 10 short episodes over quarantine and they were released in the spring/summer. Here is one of her most popular episodes.
Matt Reed, Tim Swinehart, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Suzanna Kassouf, and Bill Bigelow, Teaching the Green New Deal: The Prequel
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 3 Spring 2021
Anne Smith, Listening Between the Lines: The Sound of Curriculum
Rethinking Schools. Volume 36, No. 1 Fall 2021
Kim Stafford, cofounder of OWP and Oregon’s former poet laureate, also has a new book of poetry Singer Come from Afar from Red Hen Press (2021). You can access readings from the book here.
Tim Swinehart, A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair: Let’s Not Ask Our Students to Return to Normal
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 2 Winter 2020-2021
Betsy Tighe, teacher librarian at Roosevelt High School, received a Teacher-Librarian scholarship from the Key West Literary Seminar. Her poem “Hurricane Weather” was reprinted in an anthology Bite-Sized Poems, edited by Ellen Summerfield and published by Kendell Direct Publishing.
Renée Watson and Linda Christensen, The Power of Teaching Poetry: A Conversation Between Renée Watson and Linda Christensen
Rethinking Schools. Volume 36, No. 1 Fall 2021
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, More Than McCarthyism: Activists Our Students Deserve to Know
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No. 4 Summer 2021
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Necessary Trouble: Bringing the Climate Disobedience Movement into Our Classrooms
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No 3 Spring 2021
Carolyn Wood, retired OWP ELA teacher, just launched her second memoir Class Notes: A Young Teacher’s Lesson from Classroom to Kennedy Compound. This follows her award-winning first memoir, Tough Girl.
Moé Yonamine and Wayne Au, Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America
Rethinking Schools. Volume 35, No. 3 Spring 2021
