#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters

Margaret Atwood on THE TRUTH in The Handmaid's Tale YouTube video by Brief But Spectacular

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Kirkus is very perceptive.

Magnitude and Bond that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses

I'm kicking off National Poetry Month at the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series! You can read my new poem, "Magnitude and Bond," at the link below. Special thanks goes to Willie Perdomo for making space for me and these words this month.
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Such a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and beautifully-crafted text.

Both have me chewing on the relationship between history, memory, and nostalgia; as well as our ability or responsibility to be witnesses or agents of change.
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social

Balancing my few “free days” of reading with Samantha Harvey’s beautiful novel _Orbital_, while wading back in again to Clint Smith’s _How the Word Is Passed_.

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Finally Spring break & reading for (English teacher?) joy: Yoko Ogawa’s « Mina’s Matchbox » and « Respect the Mic » @joseolivarez.bsky.social

Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.

Burning Out? 9 Tips for Sustainable Teaching - Much Ado About Teaching Teacher burnout can peak in the darkest, coldest days of winter. It rears its ugly head as we recover from the holidays and feel the physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by the prolonged ...

Struggling with making it through the year? @briansztabnik.bsky.social and I share what helps us not only make it through the year but make this career not just manageable but enjoyable.

Be aware that firing people without thinking about the consequences isn't just stupidity.

It's deliberate chaos-making.
It's a way of grabbing power.

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

I will pick it up again — got about 1/3 of the way through this past summer before the library made me return it.
Lynch’s prose is compelling.

Thank you,Walt Whitman, for speaking across the decades to the 16- & 17-year-olds in my classes.
#whitman
#poetry
#transcendentalim

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...

Bright, warm light, silence or the muffled hum of others’ coffee house conversations, and layers of wool to keep the shivers at bay.

I love this essay so much

Hooray for getting that beautiful language in their mouths!

Read this — thank you Samantha Harvey for Orbital. My reading experience currently feels ineffable. So glad you have words for us.

Ready to share our hopes & blessings for the year ahead
#englishteacher
#thosewhocan
#gratitude

Just ordered my copy — looking forward to its arrival!