Stephen Policoff

I am interested in how we write what we write—how the mind, both conscious and unconscious, works to create ideas, images, texts. I like to examine all kinds of creative efforts—from paintings to poems to photographs to journals to advertisements—and consider both what they appear to say and what they might also be suggesting. Mostly, I concentrate on what my students bring to the class and how I can help them to make what they are trying to say more clear, more potent, more expressive of who they are and what they believe.