One week into National Poetry Month and I’m thinking about the poems I want my students to read before they head off to middle school. #NationalPoetryMonth
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I need to find my people again in this place—and a reason to stay and keep doing what I do. If you love poetry, resist fascism & hatred, believe in education, and just generally value tenderness and empathy and love, can you say hi? I need to get this algorithm straightened out.
When the world gets impossible, I think of this.
A teacher wrote to me, "I gave one of my 2nd-grade students your nature poetry prompt. He's reluctant to write because of challenges...I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."
ICYMI, I wrote this a year ago today and the message is still very applicable now. I want to find ways to wander with deliberation through this second-half of the school year.
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I have a bad habit of forgetting to promote my poetry collections.
My newest title, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may be prone to frequent arousal.
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I learned of a New Year’s Eve tradition where you pick a poem to carry with you into the new year; setting an intention on what you want this new year to be. What poem would you choose?
“The only way to honor them is to live a life worthy of their sacrifices.”
I’ve always striven to be the best teacher/husband/father/human I can be. Now that I’m a proud father of a Marine, I realize that I still have much work to do.
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