Wordplaygrounds: Pterodactyls

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Maple leaf palimpsests
Stamping the pavement
With crazy webbed footprints
Like dinosaur tracks,
A stampede of deranged ptero-
dactyls?

"This Time It's Personal: Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction," NCTE National Conference, November, 2011
"21st Century Learners": Golden Apple Foundation's Teach for Tomorrow Conference, Niles, IL, November, 2011
"Creative Nonfiction in the English Curriculum," New Trier Township Writing Institute, Northfield, IL, June, 2011
"TV Tokenism," Becoming Critical Consumers of Media" with Spiro Bolos, CASE Conference, Chicago, IL February, 2011
"Writing Out Loud: Blogs and Podcasts in the Schools," with Spiro Bolos, CASE Conference, Chicago, IL, February, 2011
Interested in John S. O'Connor presenting or reading at your school or university? Email: oconnojo@nths.net