Writing Life Stories

I was honored when my poem Scene from Yellowstone's Valiant Wild  was published in Kakalak 2009. Richard Taylor and Beth Cagle , editors...

In my memoir classes, I often ask my students to use photographs as prompts to jog their memories for stories about the past. I also use pho...

May, 2007 - I began this blog. More than 50,000 page views later, I am still here. I learned about blogging for the first time at a North C...

Unteachable: An Anthology of Poets Outside the Academy For the last fifty years teaching has become the default profession of poets i...

In June of 1962, I graduated from the University of Georgia with a teaching degree. I was hired to teach fourth grade at a fairly new facili...

My father, Coy Lee Council , must have been a handsome man in his youth with his dark hair and blue eyes. I've heard the stories of his...