Craig and I both teach creative writing at Illinois Central College--he fiction and I poetry--and I had been eager to have this conversation with him about how he organizes his class, his goals and methods. So we talked about it on April 19, 2011 in an empty classroom at ICC.
I spoke to Thomas in his English Dept. office at Bradley University on April 18, 2011. We talked about writing and teaching as well as his poetic rendering of the ancient Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh.