Austin C asked Ken Craft:

Being a writer and a teacher, how do you incorporate writing techniques into your lessons?

Ken Craft Thanks for the question, Austin. I go with my instincts and teach works I like and I think my students will like. With poetry, for instance, when you ask students to simply mark their favorite lines, they almost always circle poetic elements, proving that good writing, identified as a literary element or not, is good writing. Thus, over time and with much reading, student writers become immersed in good literature. They begin first to imitate the work of the greats and then begin to branch off into their own styles using their own voices. The bottom line: reading feeds writing, and vice-versa.

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