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Meet Matthew Lippman
“Poetry is about sustaining a piece of my existence in the world. It’s about survival,” says Gotham teacher Matthew Lippman. “I do it like I do anything else in my day. It calms me down. It’s like prayer and making a sandwich at the same time.”
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Meet Shari Goldhagen
There is a trick to returning to one’s writing-in-progress that Gotham instructor Shari Goldhagen shares with her students: “Give yourself an hour a day—or two or four, whatever you can do—but don’t exceed that. If you do, you’ll be exhausted from it. You want to be excited.”
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The teacher was kind but thorough. She would ask why a character would say or do something, or point out that the dialogue was good, but there was too much of it, or a scene needed to be grounded so the reader would know where it was, what it looked like, etc. And she would ask "how did you feel about that?" I learned a tremendous amount from this.
Joanne Lupton, distinguished professor, emerita
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