"In our desire to “teach” literature, we have “disciplined” literary texts and shaped the relationalities between text and reader. What types of un-disciplining might allow texts to become subjects of exploration rather than objects of study? What if the text is the subject—an opening for readers to experience and journey through a text? Serendipitous wanderings, the sensations of immediacy or vividness in description, stepping into an unfamiliar landscape, walking at the side of a writer who points to dimensions of the world that have gone unnoticed before—these are the interpretive practices that encourage a nearly impossible-to-put-into-words flicker and glow of a meaningful reading experience."
"...but the point is: think about one novel, play or poem that has never left you, the traces of felt-sense, the roar of sensations that unmoor and unsteady your complacencies, the potential of words to lift you from the words, the page, and move you across space, time and circumstance. This is my hope in facilitating engagements with literature—even just one such poem, one text that has staying power, vibrantly alive in the body/mind to matter in one's life. This poem or story, its word, images, imaginings, does not exist but its very tissue is a mattering produced when reader and text converge."
"My hope is to be part of experiences where literature matters, where reading matters, where a poem or a story causes us to float out of our shoes, rise from terra firma to imagine, feel, and experience (other)wise."