CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.
Tag: student submission
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by Nick (’15) In his essay “The Concept of ‘Romanticism’ in Literary History,” René Wellek quotes Earl Wasserman: “the creation of a poem is also the creation of the cosmic wholeness that gives meaning to the poem, and each poet must independently make his own world picture, his own language within language.” This, says Wellek,…
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by Luca (’16) Wes Anderson’s movies are charming and colorful, albeit very similar. They have funny captions, dysfunctional families, and mysterious narrators. But they all have a marvelous take-away feeling: the sensation of being warmed up inside. All his tales leave us with the need to enlighten everybody who hasn’t seen a Wes Anderson film,…
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by Josie (’16) With each coming school year, there is more and more concern over the state of San Francisco’s public education. Whether it is the budget or number of kids failing to graduate, there always seem to be problems with public education. As a high school student involved with the public school system, I…
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by Giorgia (’14) (Last year, when the class of ’14 were sophomores, CWI studied groups of Movements throughout history, and on top of writing responses to each Movement, reflected on each group’s causes, characteristics, and effects in the poetry of the modern world.) In creative writing I find we often have a very narrow view…
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by Hosanna (’14) GLIDE Memorial Church is the place to be. My mother had told me about GLIDE, then my homepiece and peer, Flavia (a Creative Writer) told me we should check it out together. During the summer I decided to check it out. I went on www.glide.org, picked out a date, and received a…
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by Flavia (’14) This past unit with Kevin Carnes was truly and melodiously enlightening. This guy has a stern persona; his words are as careful and precise as his drumming. It was his first time teaching a classroom of high school students and he was able to not only meet the teaching expectations but also…
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by Olivia A. (’14) For the past two summers I’ve worked at the de Young Museum as a Museum Ambassador—which is an imposing name for a whimsical job (in a constructive, healthy way that occasionally involves doing impressions of Picasso or throwing modeling clay at coworkers). When my coworkers and I weren’t playing word games…
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by Josie (’16) Dan Hoyle’s show, The Real Americans, exceeded my wildest expectations. What I had expected was an older gentleman, maybe clad in old, worn-out corduroy slacks, a plaid shirt, and fleece vest clutching a cane, reciting his life story to a large audience. This was not the case, fortunately. Dan Hoyle is a…
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by Abigail (’14) I had no idea there were so many galleries downtown! And all free! For any parents reading this who don’t know what I’m talking about, last Saturday the C-Dubs were taken at hyperspeed through San Francisco’s art world by Ronald Chase, creator of Art and Film. As a culmination of the unit…
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by Luca (’16) This movie is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who masterfully made films such as “There Will be Blood” and “Magnolia”, the fastest four hours I have ever sat through. He is no doubt a fantastic talent, a producing-writing-directing type who has never made a bad movie, and has never succumbed to making popular…
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