Diane Thiel

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I have been an educator for over twenty-five years, and my publications include several books of creative writing pedagogy: Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres; Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry; Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction; Writing Your Rhythm: Using Nature, Culture, Form and Myth; as well as (with Stephen Minot) Three Genres: the Writing of Literary Prose, Poems and Plays and the Instructor's Manual for Three Genres.

I am a Regents' Professor at University of New Mexico, and I have also taught in innovative settings such as the NSF program for inner city youth, Ecology for Urban Students, and for the Miami Book Fair's Poet in the Schools program.

I have participated in numerous teaching venues nationally and internationally and would be delighted to discuss a visit to your school, conference, or organization.

Teaching Resources

Below are a few teaching resources. These are mostly lectures I have written and recorded about various pieces of literature for Pearson/Longman and National Endowment for the Arts projects.

Fiction Lectures

Diane Thiel lecture on T. C. Boyle's Greasy Lake

Lecture (Audio): On Greasy Lake

Lecture text (PDF): On Greasy Lake

Diane Thiel lecture on Louise Erdrich's The Red Convertible

Lecture (Audio): The Red Convertible

Lecture text (PDF): The Red Convertible

Diane Thiel on Octavio Paz's My Life with the Wave

Download the NEA Big Read Teacher's Guide, Sun, Stone and Shadows Look, in particular, at Day 6 and 7 and Handout 3 for Octavio Paz's "My Life with the Wave"

Paz's story can be found here.

Poetry Lectures

	Follow the link to hear me read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" If you have trouble with the above link, you can read the text of my lecture here: Lecture on One Art
	Follow the link to hear me read and discuss Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory" If you have trouble with the above link, you can read the text of my lecture here: Lecture on Richard Cory
	Follow the link to the National Endowment for the Arts "The Big Read". Look at Handout 2 on Wild Legacies Read the poem Wild nights.
	Follow the link to listen to my comments and reading of Yeats's "When You Are Old" in the original Poetry Out Loud Audio Guide. Scroll half way down the page.