Stephanie Balzer (SB) is a writer, coach, and founder of Mission. She recently wrote the Why Is McLuhan Interesting? edition, among others.
Steph here. When I taught poetry and composition to university students as an adjunct—with middling success because teaching people to write is, wow, really tough—I often selected Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel” as p…
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