Our Host Joanne Emery has worked in education for forty years as a classroom teacher, learning specialist, and curriculum coordinator. She is a member of the Advisory Board at Rutgers University Center for Literacy. Joanne regularly presents her work in educational journals and academic conferences. …
Our Host Denise Krebs is a retired teacher after 30 years in the classroom. She spends her days on the lookout for the good in people and the world. Some days it’s harder than others. She lives with her husband in the Mojave desert. She …
Thank you so much for joining us for poetry. We are in week two of Verselove, 30 days of reading, writing, and communing with poetry. In our first week together, we made 2683 poems and poetic responses on this site together with 1598 teacher-educators (and …
Our Host James is a guitarist, writer, and 4-star cheesecake baker (according to his wife). He was recently published in the Poet’s Choice collection of supernatural poetry, Paranormal, and will be featured in an upcoming edition of the zine Black Stone/White Stone. This is James’s …
Our Host Katrina teaches English and German in a rural community in Osage County, Oklahoma. She has worked in education her entire career. This is her 18th year in the classroom. She has a master’s degree in Higher Education Leadership from Northeastern State University. In …
Our Host Leilya Pitre lives in Ponchatoula, LA, which is known as the Strawberry Capital of the World. She teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University and coordinates the English Education Program. With her students, who are tomorrow’s English teachers, she tries to think of the ways …
Our Host: Jennifer Guyor Jowett I’m a poet! Who are you? Are you – a poet – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Let’s tell! They’ll celebrate – you know. Inspiration o, boy! I was thinking about how much writers love words and wondered …
Our Host Wendy Everard is a high school English teacher and writer living in central New York. Her role as mother and teacher has given her plenty to write about since she started writing personal narrative and poetry, lifelong hobbies that were reignited when she …
Our Host Bryan Ripley Crandall lives in Stratford, Connecticut, where he directs the Connecticut Writing Project and is Associate Professor of English Education at Fairfield University. He gained teaching legs at the J. Graham Brown School in Louisville, Kentucky, a K-12 public school with a …
Our Host Kim Johnson lives in Georgia and serves as District Literacy Specialist for her school system. She is the author of Father, Forgive Me: Confessions of a Southern Baptist Preacher’s Kid and contributor to 2 poetry anthologies, Rhyme and Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes …