‘I’M STILL LEARNING, AS ARE THEY’
Coming into this class I was extremely nervous. I had never done something like this before. I’ve never taught anyone how to …
‘WE MADE SOMETHING THAT GREW’
Our first in a series of Butler student dispatches comes in the form of a poem, inspired by our first three weeks …
‘THIS JUST SUMS UP EXCLUSIVE INK’
We capped a incredible Fall semester with a Holiday Party on December 9. To commemorate the momentous afternoon—one that saw more than 50 …
‘WHAT I FIND PREVAILING IS COURAGE’
I remember spending time in my high school’s creative writing club. We were a group of never more then ten, all good …
LEARNING THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘AWESOME’
Two days before the vote on Indianapolis Public Schools restructuring, and the students of Shortridge swarmed into the Exclusive Ink classroom once …
THE BEST OF EXCLUSIVE INK, PRE-TURKEY EDITION
As an appetizer to your upcoming Thanksgiving meals, we offer a cornucopia of fresh Exclusive Ink poetry and prose. We’re happy to …
ART IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF SCREAMING
Shortridge is important to me because of what the young writers there have to share with me. A lot of them have …
SUN GAZING AND THE ECSTASY OF APPLAUSE
Precisely nothing’s more precious than a young spark’s genuine enthusiasm. Prior to my experience in this classroom, I was experientially ignorant of …
WITS SPOTLIGHTED IN BUTLER NEWSROOM
We’re quite pleased to get some buzz from the Butler Newsroom again. Reporter Sarvary Koller (Class of 2015) spent a day with …
‘I LOVED WATCHING THE COLLABORATION’
As a student studying psychology and neuroscience, the closest I’ve been to a poem in the past four years was a sad …