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Nick Ripatrazone

Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor at Image Journal, a contributing editor at The Millions, and a columnist at Lit Hub. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Esquire. He lives in Andover Township, New Jersey, with his wife and twin daughters. His latest book, Longing for an Absent God, is available from Fortress Press.


Teaching High School Writers What It Means to Be Published

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks With Katie Scullion, Director of Polyphony Lit
August 21, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Teaching Students to Use Their Voices Through Theater

Nick Ripatrazone Talks to English Teacher Conor O'Sullivan
July 31, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Remember Reading in Public?

Nick Ripatrazone on the Private Self Made Public
July 27, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Poets vs. The Police: On Standing Your Ground in
a Toronto Park

“In Canada, a poet, to make his way as a poet, has to be
a real tough bastard.”
July 16, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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In Flint, a Teacher Amplifies Student Voices on Justice

In the Empty Classroom of Jessyca Mathews
June 25, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Showing High Schoolers That Yes, Structure is Essential

Nick Ripatrazone Talks to English Teacher Matt Carton
May 28, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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High School at a Distance:
On the Importance of Finding Remote Connections

Nick Ripatrazone Talks to Jasmine Lane
April 29, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Trying to Teach High School During a Global Pandemic

"Our school year was already in its final act, and now its climax
was stolen from us."
March 31, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism

Nick Ripatrazone Considers the Faith of an American Icon
March 2, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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You Can’t Teach High School English Without Hope

Nick Ripatrazone Talks to Melissa Grandel, the 2020 Missouri
Teacher of the Year
February 24, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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The Chaotic Side of Learning: Keeping High School Seniors From Falling Asleep

Atlanta English Teacher Susan Barber on “Creating
a family in the classroom.”
January 30, 2020  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo
December 17, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Catherine Reed
November 22, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Poet and Teacher Kerrin McCadden
October 23, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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High School English: Balancing the Job with the Calling

Nick Ripatrazone Profiles Teacher Tricia Ebarvia
September 18, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Too

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor
September 9, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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In Praise of the High School English Teacher

Introducing a New Column by Nick Ripatrazone
August 27, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”
August 20, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.
August 13, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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InterLibrary Loan Will
Change Your Life

Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
the Apex of Human Civilization
August 7, 2019  By Nick Ripatrazone
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