Bill Stifler

Bill Stifler
Bill Stifler teaches writing and mythology at Chattanooga State and is co-faculty advisor for The Phoenix, Chattanooga State's student arts publication. He has published several poems, including "Redeeming Time," which appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of Science News.

From 1997 to the spring of 2001, he served as copy editor of the Academic Exchange Quarterly, an academic journal devoted to the art and practice of teaching.

Stifler also serves as webmaster for the Meacham Writers Conference,  The Phoenix, the Chattanooga State Reading & Writing Center, and the Chattanooga State Humanities and Fine Arts department, and has designed and taught Chattanooga State's online Composition I and World Mythology classes.

For more information about Bill Stifler, visit his personal web site.

On Writing

I've tried to think what I could tell you,
about the way words feel, the sound
they make when they touch, the way
words fight you, fall flat, clattering
like pans to a kitchen floor or the slap
of a tire limping, only you know all
this, and I wonder if there is anything
I could tell you, or tell myself,
because words make their own way,
play by their own rules, and all we do,
if we're lucky, is find them.

Published in Bridging English
Milner and Milner, MacMillan Press, 1993
Used by permission of the author


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