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More Poems About School; 1999:Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll; 2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets) 2002:The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems; 2004:Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (with Alice Desmarteau) 2006:Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems
William Corbett (October 11, 1942 – August 10, 2018) [1] was an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.. Corbett's work and public readings acknowledge the influence on him of jazz, modernist and imagist poetry (especially William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound in his later work), the group of poets in Donald Allen's seminal anthology The New American Poetry 1945–1960 ...
She started performing poetry in high school at Baruch College Campus High School in Manhattan. One of her first poetic memories was when she wrote a poem for a class that compelled the teacher, who encouraged Monet to continue writing. Monet competed with a poem for her high school talent show, and won, bringing her teachers to tears. [5]
Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. [3] Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim.
The tone and language of the poem is influenced by William Bowles's poetry; it differs from 18th-century poetic conventions and connects the style of the poem to many of Coleridge's other poems of the time, including "To the Autumnal Moon", "Pain", "On Receiving an Account that his only Sister's Death was Inevitable" and "To the River Otter". [12]
To date, the College Prize, under the auspices of the Academy of American Poets, has been established at the College of William and Mary, the University of Mary Washington, Old Dominion University, the University of Richmond, and Virginia Tech. After being appointed Poet Laureate in July 2006, Carolyn launched a Poetry Book Giveaway Project.
In 2001, Taylor Mali used a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts to develop the one-man show "Teacher! Teacher!" about poetry, teaching, and math. He is a strong advocate for the nobility of teaching and in 2000 he set out to create 1,000 new teachers through "poetry, persuasion, perseverance, or passion."
Robert Pack (May 19, 1929 – June 5, 2023) was an American poet and critic, and Distinguished Senior Professor in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana - Missoula. [1] For thirty-four years he taught at Middlebury College and from 1973 to 1995 served as director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference .