Sinclair Community College English professor Charles Freeland said that he has always written poetry, but it wasn\u2019t until his time at the University of Arkansas that he became interested in prose poetry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started exploring prose poetry in graduate school (at the University of Arkansas) when I was studying French writers and surrealists,\u201d the Germantown native said.<\/p>\n
Freeland released a full-length collection of poetry titled \u201cThrough the Funeral Mountains on a Burro\u201d this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sort of combine the two fields \u2013 poetry and philosophy \u2013 in my work,\u201d Freeland said. \u201cOr, I try to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freeland graduated from Valley View High School and attended Miami (OH) University, where he received a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Philosophy. He then went Arkansas to study writing.<\/p>\n
During his time at Arkansas, he taught composition classes, where he realized that he loved teaching it.<\/p>\n
In 1996 he returned to Dayton and applied to teach part time at Sinclair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really wasn\u2019t looking to be a composition teacher, but once I started, I knew that was what I loved more than anything else,\u201d Freeland said.<\/p>\n
Freeland said the students are his main reason for loving his job.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople will joke with me that when they come by my office; there\u2019s a line of students,\u201d he said. \u201cMy favorite thing is (to) sit down with a student and talk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk, not just about the work they have, but we also talk about whatever else they are interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freeland said what he wants students to get from his classes is that \u201ceducation is not a traumatic experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freeland also said his philosophy professor at Miami, Stan Kane, was one of the influences on his teaching style.<\/p>\n
\u201cI observed him even before I knew I was going to be a teacher,\u201d he said. \u201cI observed his classes and how calm he was in the face of whatever was going on in class.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as Freeland\u2019s writing process, he said that he writes every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI usually sit down (at the keyboard) with a completely blank mind,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Freeland said that he tries to wait sometimes weeks or months before looking over what he has written.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I fell in love with it when I first wrote it, I\u2019m no longer in love with it to the point where I can\u2019t chop it to pieces, because that\u2019s what I think good writing comes from,\u201d Freeland said.<\/p>\n
If you are interested in finding out more about Freeland\u2019s work visit his Web site at www.charlesfreelandpoetry.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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