Here are insightful poems for an age that craves information and celebrity gossip. Erin Murphy skillfully employs meter, rhyme, line, stanza and even erasure to shine lights on minor characters adjacent to the stars. Her instinct for narrative and formal variation delivers fine monologues that sparkle and surprise.

Ancilla

Literature & Fiction

Murphy, Erin

Poetry

Lamar University Press

It's time to say Yes to PBL
Project Based Learning can be messy, complicated, and downright scary. When done right, though, PBL and Inquiry are challenging, inspiring and fun for students. Best of all, when project-based learning is done right, it actually makes the teacher's job easier.
Now, you can demystify project-based learning
As questions and mysteries around PBL and inquiry continue to swirl, experienced classroom teachers and school administrators Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have written a book that will empower those intimidated by PBL to cry, “I can do this!” while at the same time providing added value for those who are already familiar with the process. Hacking Project Based Learning demystifies what PBL is all about with 10 hacks that construct a simple path that educators and students can easily follow to achieve success.
Hacking Project Based Learning provides a simple blueprint for PBL that helps you:
<ul>
<li>Establish a culture of inquiry and creativity in your classroom</li>
<li>Teach the kind of collaboration skills that harness dissonance</li>
<li>Turn High Impact Takeaways (HITs) into a project based plan</li>
<li>Create Umbrella questions that drive the project</li>
<li>Build a Progress Assessment Tool (PAT) that helps students inform and assess their learning</li>
<li>Use formative assessment throughout the entire PBL experience</li>
<li>Seamlessly integrate direct instruction to enhances the process, rather than interfere with it</li>
<li>Practice the patience that inspires a productive struggle, which leads to better understanding</li>
<li>
Teach and embrace reflection during and at the end of the project</li>
<li>Publish work the right way, so all stakeholders can see it</li>
</ul>
Experts rave about Hacking Project Based Learning
"HACKING PROJECT BASED LEARNING is a classroom essential. Its ten simple “hacks” will guide you through the process of setting up a learning environment in which students will thrive from start to finish."
 -Daniel H. Pink, New York Times Bestselling author of DRIVE
"Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have researched PBL from every angle and offer practical steps to make the PBL experience highly beneficial to students because they are practitioners who use it. This book is a very important “How-to” for every teacher and leader who is interested in PBL.
 -Peter DeWitt, author/consultant, Finding Common Ground blog (Education Week)
"The challenge for educators with project and inquiry based learning is finding the time and having the knowledge to implement effectively. Cooper and Murphy provide a much-needed resource that addresses both of these pain points in a concise, clear manner.
 -Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education 
Are you ready for an amazing productive struggle in your classroom?
Start Hacking Project Based Learning today.

Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

Cooper, Ross

Schools & Teaching

Times 10 Publications

"Erin Murphy's invented form, the demi-sonnet, is small but alarmingly penetrative....These poems, simultaneously eerie and straightforward, exert a cumulative effect as they disclose the haunted domestic." --Claire Bateman, author of SCAPE and LOCALS "Murphy chisels words down to their musical rawness, providing us a poetry so well-wrought it is unforgettable, a charm against time's erasure." --James Allen Hall, author of NOW YOU'RE THE ENEMY ASSISTED LIVING by Erin Murphy is comprised of seventy-two demi-sonnets, a seven-line poetic form that she devised. The poems encompass the life span experience, ranging from childhood to aging and caregiving. A section is devoted to poems based on Murphy's late mother-in-law, Ann Palmer De Prospo, an accomplished pianist who was the leader of the Major Bowes All-Girl Band in the 1930s. De Prospo died in 2013 at the age of 99. Poems from this Brick Road Prize-winning collection have appeared in BARRELHOUSE, REVIEW AMERICANA, THE SUMMERSET REVIEW, CHEAT RIVER REVIEW, and elsewhere. A selection of the poems was published in the chapbook REMORSE CODE as part of the Seven Kitchens Press Keystone Chapbook Series. Erin Murphy is the author of six previous collections of poetry, including ANCILLA (Lamar University Press) and editor of three anthologies, including MAKING POEMS: FORTY POEMS WITH COMMENTARY BY THE POETS (SUNY Press) and the forthcoming BODIES OF TRUTH: PERSONAL NARRATIVES ON ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND MEDICINE (University of Nebraska Press). Her awards include the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Foley Poetry Award, the National Writers' Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall, and The Normal School Poetry Prize judged by Nick Flynn. She is professor of English and creative writing at Penn State University, Altoona College. Learn more at www.erin-murphy.com.

Assisted Living

Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.

Poetry. "Erin Murphy's poems delight and teach by poking fun: at poets giving readings, Burger King signs, poetry contests, and men who say I'll take care of those wasps for ya, honey. If you're tired of poems that try to be a little too smart for their own britches, these'll take care of 'em for ya, honey"--H.L. Hix.

Too Much of This World

Mammoth Books

Familial Forms is the first full-length study to examine how literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped define the "century of revolution." By demonstrating how conflicts over the family-state analogy intersected with the period's battles over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of Charles I, disputes over the terms of the Interregnum government, the Restoration of Charles II, the Exclusion Crisis, the deposition of James II, the ascent of William and Mary, and Anne's failure to produce a surviving heir, this study provides a new map of the seventeenth-century politics of family in England. Beginning with a reconsideration of Jacobean patriarchalism, Familial Forms focuses on the work of John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, John Dryden, and Mary Astell. From their contrasting political and gendered positions, these authors contemplated and contested the relevance of marriage and kinship to government. Their writing illuminates two crucial elements of England's conflicts. First, the formal qualities of poems and prose tracts reveal that not only was there a competition among different versions of the family-state analogy, but also a competition over its very status as an analogy. Second, through their negotiations of linear and nonlinear forms, Milton, Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell demonstrate the centrality of temporality to the period's political battles.Through close textual analysis of poetry, political tracts, parliamentary records, and nonliterary genealogies, Familial Forms offers a fresh understanding of the seventeenth-century politics of genealogy. It also provides new answers to long-standing critical questions about the poetic form of canonical works, such as Paradise Lost and Absalom and Achitophel, and illuminates the political significance of newly-canonical works by women writers, including Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeoreum, Hutchinson's Order and Disorder, and Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Lad

Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

History & Criticism

University of Delaware Press

The demi-sonnets in Erin Murphy’s Taxonomies categorize elements of the human experience that defy simple classification. In this form of her own invention, Murphy holds a magnifying glass to issues of gender, aging, relationships, and social justice.

Taxonomies

Word Poetry

Erin Murphy’s Science of Desire investigates the ache of longing, the burn to feel and live, with a precision worthy of any laboratory. But these sensual poems’ laboratory is the entire world, and the trials their speakers undergo are anything but blind.

Science of Desire

The jazzy female voices in Erin Murphy's Dislocation and Other Theories memorably portray women's experiences in the twenty-first century. In these dislocated times, Murphy's poems offer a sure map to deeper wisdom.

Dislocation and Other Theories

Countless educators from across the globe would love to leverage project based learning to create learner-centered opportunities for their students, but, believe it or not, PBL has yet to go mainstream. If project based learning can benefit so many students, why isn't this approach the norm in teaching? Because educators have questions. Since the release of their first book, Hacking Project Based Learning, Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy, prominent PBL experts, have connected with thousands of PBL practitioners. Project Based Learning is Cooper's and Murphy's response to the most common, and most complex, questions educators ask about PBL and inquiry, including: <ul> <li>How do I structure a PBL experience?</li> <li>What do I do while the kids are working?</li> <li>How do I get grades?</li> <li>How do I include direct instruction?</li> <li>What happens when kids don't work well together?</li> <li>How do I manage the chaos?</li> </ul> Project Based Learning answers these questions, and more, to show you how to do PBL and inquiry, and all school projects the right way, in any subject or grade. Order yours today, and launch PBL in your class tomorrow.

Project Based Learning: Real Questions. Real Answers. How to Unpack PBL and Inquiry

A play on George Orwell’s famous novel, Burmese Days, Burmese Haze provides a unique―and personal―perspective on the historical events and foreign ties that shaped Myanmar and its relationship with the United States. Former intelligence analyst Erin Murphy tells the story of a remarkable political transition and subsequent collapse, taking the story beyond the headlines to explain why Myanmar and US policy toward it is where it is today. The book weaves in historical details, analysis, and memories drawn from interviews with senior US officials and tycoons, monks, activists, and antagonists.

Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening―and Closing (Asia Shorts)

History

Asia

Association for Asian Studies

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