I’ve been teaching for close to a decade and have started feeling defeated by the apathy and apparent lack of desire to learn found in loads of students. Any teachers out there with advice for how to push beyond this gray cloud?

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Just submitted a poem for publication. 🤞🏼 There’s always this panic inducing moment just before I hit submit.

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Roundabout

Oh, divine circle of the roadways,
you are so simple yet so convenient.
the way you turn chaos into a peaceful
flowing river that takes me away
and brings me back again. You save
my vocal chords from reverberating
obscenities at the other
lemmings riding by.
However, there are some who

A wonderful literary journal that was gracious enough to publish a poem of mine. It was a while ago, but I’m new to this platform, so check out Spectrum Literary Journal.

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spectrum.ccs.ucsb.edu/editions/vol...

Just a little poem for a big, big world.

Morning Mantra

Please, let the sun rise slowly.
Make the morning like molasses.
Let its sweet golden glow slide
down the bottleneck of heaven,
drip from the bedroom window,
and run along the floorboards,
puddling around our bodies.