Drawing the Chicken 2: On Revision

Re-vision. Bringing new eyes to old words.

Most people who can write do write. Over all the years I have been working with students, across ages and demographic groups, I’m yet to meet someone who has never in their life attempted a poem or a story. For many, this dies out by the time they hit college, or by the time they start work, but that early desire to tell one’s own unique part of the hum…