Reading Time: 4 minutes“Do You Even Like Being a Teacher?” “Why would Mr. So-and-So have chosen to be just a high school teacher? He’s so smart.” “I can’t
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDonald Graves once said that you can’t really teach a kid until you know ten things about them. I think even one thing can make
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve often had people find out what I do and ask, “What’s it like to be a teacher?” There’s not a way to really help
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroduction: “I Listen” is a series of poems about “sleeplessness”. Lupe Mier wrote most of The 15 “I Listen” poems in 1969-70 on site “over there”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBystanders and their complicity Some men and their women And the children they raise Politicians and legislators and Those who oppress us. They would steal,
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Summer Day at Noontime (July 27, 2022)* I had been sitting in my car thinking, talking to self: old man, you’ve locked yourself outside
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is so beautiful out here I missed this The river The trees The birds And everything else. –Sari LaDeaux Nature The chill wind
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe air was cool, the Niobrara River was running smoothly, some places shallow, some deep, when 13 high school students accompanied by National Park Service
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Not Perfect, but Good” By Rae Carlson Author’s Note: This poem reads two ways. Read it straight down as usual, then take a moment and
