From 1971 to 1976, Fagin was co-director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City. He was also founder of the Danspace project and director of Danspace from 1975-80. He has been a faculty member in the Poetics Department at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, since 1975, and from 1982-84 directed the Naropa Poetics program. I try to achieve a balance of the creative and practical. The methods I use encourage inventiveness, originality, and a sense of surprise and delight in the beauty of language, as well as structure, coherence, and continuity.
Children can express themselves with remarkable feeling and clarity.
They are capable of writing poems and stories of high energy and startling turns of thought.