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Introduction: Thank you very much Poetry Foundation for continuing to remain a resource for people wanting to do a deep dive into...

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Do you have that one kid in class that is a spastic handful? I was that spastic handful. I grew up in the prehistoric times of the 1970s....

Hi: I’ve been teaching English for 30 years and am always trying to figure out how to make literature intersect in young students’ lives...