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On My Pedagogical Approach (or something of the sort)

by Joe Weil Academia
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Digress, digress, follow the nose of your longing.

Tagged as: Alejandro Anreus, Art, art school, Arthur George, craft, craft class, Creative Writing, elizabeth, Fernando Gonzalez, Linden Lane, Marco Munoz, New Jersey, pedagogical approach, pedagogy, philosophy, Poetry, scat, workshop

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Terms, Truth, Sun Sparrows: A Very Important Lesson from My Father

by Joe Weil Academia
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I tell my students that education can do the work of evil: it can make a bunch of aleatory systems with PHDs think they have a right to be superior to the Rocky Weils of this world. They can make a son misunderstand the wisdom of his own father. They stink of torture and snobbery, they are rank with the odor of exclusion and bias, and we call this “truth” or “Dogma” or “terminology.”

Tagged as: aleatory systems, bias, dogma, elizabeth, exclusion, false wisdom, Joe Weil, New Jersey, rocky weil, sun sparrow, terminology, truth

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My First Day at Dodge

by Joe Weil Poetry
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The church doesn’t look like much from outside, but when you enter it, Oh my God! And not one, but two grand pianos in perfect tune! The one I played was a 150 year old Steinway—with an amazingly delicate upper range, perfect bel canto bass, and not much volume. It was an intimate Steinway, made specifically for just such a classy church.

Tagged as: Amiri Baraka, Dodge Poetry Festival, grape soda, hot dogs, Joe Weil, Marie Ponsot, Michael Cirrillo, Michael Peddie Baptist Church, New Jersey, Newark, shyness, Steinway, Waterloo, YMCA

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