Here at the 2018 Loyola Summer Session, we make it a point to enhance and embellish upon the creative writing abilities of our young pupils. We explore various components that make up poetry, such as: figurative/literal images, evolution of language, and how language pushes its audience. 

The Creative Writing class focuses on three main components of poetry: Image, Action, and Risk. By focusing on each of these components individually and symbiotically, the students are able to garner a much more comprehensive understanding of creative writing as a whole.  

F. Douglas Brown is author of ICON, a new collection of poetry from Writ Large Press in 2018, and Zero to Three (University of Georgia 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, currently teaches English and African American Poetry at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school. He is both a Cave Canem and Kundiman fellow. His poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, The PBS News Hour, The Virginia Quarterly (VQR), Bat City Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review (CQR), The Southern Humanities Review, The Sugar House Review, Cura Magazine, and Muzzle Magazine.

When he is not teaching, writing or with his three children (Isaiah, Olivia, and Simone), or he is busy DJing in the greater Los Angeles area. 

Michael Bearden

Michael Bearden recently graduated from Loyola High School's class of 2018. He will attend Northwestern University in the fall. Michael's passion is music and he is both a drummer and DJ. 

Miles Kenney

Miles Kenney also graduated with Loyola High School's class of 2018. He will attend LMU School of Film and Television in the fall. Miles's biggest passion is to be creative, in every sense of the word.