Altogether Now: Essays on Poetry, Writing, and Teaching

These essays, written over a thirty year period, bring together the strands of a career as a poet, writer, and teacher. Individually, they look closely at subjects as varied as metaphysical poetry, writing workshops, poetry online, and the relevance of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Taken together, they offer a convincing case for the ability of language and literature to enlighten people and transform cultures.

Chuck Guilford is the author of Spring Drive: A North Country Tale and the creator of two writing Web sites, Paradigm Online Writing Assistant and poetryexpress.org. His poetry chapbook, What Counts, is available from Limberlost Press (limberlostpress.com). His poems, short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kansas Quarterly, Coyote's Journal, College English, College Composition and Communication, and many other journals. He is also a winner of the Western Literature Association's Willa Cather Memorial Award (the willa Pilla).