School Poems

by David Backer

These poems were written during my first two years of teaching. I wrote them when standing or sitting in front of my students, not knowing what else to do with myself. I wrote them during staff meetings. I wrote them late at night, the terror of the next day building within me. I wrote them as a way to process and report experiences as they were happening to me, like a kind of poetry-journalism or memoir.Simply put, the poems are meant to show something about education. In my two years at Archbishop Carroll I saw some of the depths of the meaning of this idea, both abstractly and practically. These 82 poems, in their strange mess, come from those depths as I was seeing them at the time.

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