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Teaching Year #34: Letting the Literature Lead
Teaching Year 34 is done. Like most school years, this year held some wonderful moments and some heartbreak as well. In the classroom, the year felt successful. We had some great encounters with American Literature. From Anne Bradstreet, Emerson, Wheatley, Dickinson, and Douglass, to Whitman, Sandburg, Hughes, Coates, Silko, Clifton, and Espada, many of my…
Creative & Prophetic Resistance to Injustice: One Lesson from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fifty-five years ago today, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In a cowardly act of violence, as white supremacy always is, James Earl Ray shot Dr. King from across the street, hidden. Who might have assisted Ray, we will likely never know. What we do know, is that…
CRUSHED & CROWNED – Available for Pre-Order from FlowerSong Press
I am so grateful to share that CRUSHED & CROWNED, my newest poetry collection, is available for pre-order from FlowerSong Press. I am thrilled that Edward Vidaurre, and the wonderful people at FlowerSong Press have accepted this book and will bring it out in the Fall of 2023. You can order it at the link…
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