Professional writers and educators share their techniques for teaching imaginative writing and review books on writing pedagogy and related subjects. Please visit the Teachers & Writers website to learn more and to view this month's current lesson plan and featured writer. Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, and educator who lives in Los Angeles. He has three works forthcoming: a trilogy of novels, Sunrise and Armageddon, from Spuyten Duyvil; a novella, Alien Weaving, from Green Integer; and a book of poems, Sri Lankan Loxodrome, from Canopic Press. Following are excerpts of an aleatory talk given by Will Alexander at Teachers & Writers Collaborative on Thursday, October 3, 2002, to a group of teaching artists. Throughout his talk, Mr. Alexander was accompanied on guitar by Alan Smerdjian.