[Xmca-l] Re: Kozol's writing place

[HENRY SHONERD]

After I sent you the email, it occurred to me that Kozol’s writing process involved the collaboration of others, so the interview resonated with Vera’s Creative Collaboration as well. 

> On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks  Henry. I kept thinking of Vera's book as well I was watching it.
> RL
> On Aug 22, 2015 1:04 PM, "HENRY SHONERD" <hshonerd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Robert,
>> The whole half hour interview is worth a whole lot! Thank you! Things I
>> especially liked: His sharing of the artifacts, his messy method, and , of
>> course,  the place where he writes.( Larry Purss just shared an article on
>> Meade that cites the trascendetalists of 19th Century America, who I
>> associate with the very kind of New England house where Kozol writes.) All
>> of the interview reminded me of Vera John Steiner’s Notebooks of the Mind
>> on the creative process. And the importance of lived experience Who
>> couldn’t love the guy? And they fired him!
>> Henry
>> 
>>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> The first 12 minutes of th
>>> ​e program linked below​
>>> are worth watching
>>> ​ because shed light on Kozol's creative process of writing and reveal
>> some
>>> of the sources of his inspiration to write.
>>> Langston Hughes sent Kozol an
>>> autographed
>>> photo
>>> ​ of himself​
>>> 
>>> ​after​
>>> 
>>> ​Kozol​
>>> was fired
>>> ​ from his first teaching job​
>>> for reading one of
>>> ​Hughes'​
>>> poems in a high school English class.
>>> ​
>>> ​Kozol​
>>> says reading Rilke, Yeats and Auden are his soul foo
>>> ​d​ and
>>> ​ he was also a personal friend of Mister Rogers.* Who knew?​*
>>> http://www.c-span.org/video/?288596-2/jonathan-kozol-writing-books.
>>> 
>>> Robert Lake  Ed.D.
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>>> Social Foundations of Education
>>> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
>>> Georgia Southern University
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>>> P. O. Box 8144
>>> Phone: (912) 478-0355
>>> Fax: (912) 478-5382
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>>> Bob Dylan (1964).
>> 
>> 
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