We've all had "Show and Tell" the first moments of our creative lives in which we brought our treasures to 1st grade for all to see. But what if the teddy bear we’ve brought simply sits on the table in front of the class? Or what if we forget Teddy at home, and— when called forward—must rely on only explication to express our great love for that spit-soaked, dog-bitten artifact who got us through so much trauma, joy, and life? Join me as I take us through an experience in which we see the crucial relationships between showing AND telling, and discover why these two elements of our essay work must be offered in tandem.Text
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JESSE WATERS A winner of the River Styx International Poetry Contest, runner-up for the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and Finalist in The Starcherone Prize, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Prize and the Paul Bowles Fiction Award, Jesse Waters is currently Director of the Bowers Writers House at Elizabethtown College. Jesse’s fiction, poetry and non-fiction work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared nationally and internationally in a bunch of journals you’ve heard of and some no one has. His first collection of poems, Human Resources, was published by Inkbrush Press in 2011; his first collection of short fiction So Let Me Get This Straight was released by Paycock Press in Feb. of 2018; his last book, the edited and translated selected/collected poems of Taslima Nasrin, Burning Roses in My Garden, was released by Penguin Books in Sept. of 2023.