Category Archives: Writing

A Publication Announcement & An Upcoming Event

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have some very exciting news! Ghostbird Press has agreed to publish For My Son, A Kind of Prayer, a chapbook of poems about being a father and raising a son. If all goes well, the book should be out … Continue reading →

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“Because You Have Been a Feast for Me” is Part of the 2015 LitBulb Literary Festival

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I am thrilled that my poem, “Because You Have Been a Feast for Me” has been included in the 2015 LitBulb Festival, an international, online gathering of literary work. Rather than gather all the included works onto one website, each author … Continue reading →

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Revising for Trans Inclusive Language

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

At some point in the past, in a comment thread where we were discussing what I was then calling “routine infant male circumcision” in the United States, Grace pointed out to me that phrases like “the routine medical circumcision of infant … Continue reading →

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“You’re a Man. Why Are You Teaching Women’s Studies?”

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

For me, the most difficult part of refusing to be silent about the fact that I am a survivor of childhood sexual violence has been figuring out when and under what circumstances to reveal it to my students at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Writing | 2 Comments

Here’s to a New Beginning and a Renewed Purpose

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

As I have hinted at in some of the posts I’ve written over the past couple of years, my professional life has been difficult, not because of anything having to do with my job per se, but because the college … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Writing | 6 Comments

Running a Literary Reading Series and the Politics of Inclusion

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This post has a very specific purpose: to ask those who might be interested to offer feedback on the draft vision statement that appears at the end. The statement is for a small literary reading series called First Tuesdays that I … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Mythago!

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Ampersand

Mythago, under her meatworld name “Laurel Halbany,” has published a story in a new anthology from Celeano Press, In The Court of the Yellow King. The anthology contains new stories set in the King in Yellow Mythos created in 1895 … Continue reading →

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What do you do when your student tells you her father threatened her life?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Well, if you’re a K–12 teacher and you believe the student is at all credible (or maybe her credibility doesn’t matter), you have very specific reporting requirements, and there are protocols for that reporting that you have to follow, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Writing | 1 Comment

Workplace Politics: Is the Risk Worth the Danger?

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

In “Story 16” in “Padeshahan,” or “Kings,” the first chapter of Sa’di’s Golestan—the stories are simply numbered; they are not given titles—the protagonist is having a hard time earning enough money to support his family. He has become so poor, … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Writing | 11 Comments

Would We Be Living in a Better World if the Tyrants of the Past Had Never Existed?

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

When Someone is Driven to Murder, Where Does the Responsibility Lie? It’s been a very long time since someone called me a bleeding-heart liberal, a label that was never complimentary and always carried with it a connotation not simply of … Continue reading →

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