Ode to the football cleats abandoned near the faculty lot at Norview High School
Noah Renn has lived as a working writer and educator in Southeastern Virginia for over 15 years.
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Matthew E. Henry
- Aug 30
- 4 min
being present
Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the Colored page, Teaching While Black and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020).
Mike Keller-Wilson
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Year Ten
Mike Keller-Wilson lives, writes, and teaches in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a founder & co-editor-in-chief of Vast Chasm Magazine.
Lisa K. Buchanan
- Jul 31
- 9 min
A Tutor's ABCs
Lisa K. Buchanan is a San Francisco prose writer, an adoptee, a melanoma survivor, and a lover of Lindy Hop.
Carla Cherry
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Heart
Carla M. Cherry is a high school English teacher. Her work has appeared in Random Sample Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, 433, and Raising Mothers.
Ankit Raj Ojha
- Jul 3
- 1 min
How to tame your dragons
Ankit Raj Ojha is a poet, assistant professor of English, former software engineer and former rock band frontman from Chapra, Bihar, India.
Addie Tsai
- Jun 19
- 19 min
Dear White Supremacist Student Whose Name I No Longer Remember
Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary.
Jared Beloff
- Jun 5
- 1 min
Self-Portrait with my Daughter as Ema Shabbat
Jared Beloff is a teacher and poet who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters.
Billy Howell
- May 23
- 13 min
We Considered the Lesson Over
Billy Howell's work has appeared in The Florida Review, Lumina, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere.
Joshua Wetjen
- May 8
- 1 min
Question
Joshua Wetjen is a high school English teacher living in Minneapolis and working in St. Paul.
Karis Lee
- Apr 29
- 2 min
First Year Teacher
Karis Lee is a middle-school-teacher. She lives and writes in Washington D.C.
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum
- Apr 10
- 2 min
On the First Day of School After a Student is Killed in a Car Accident
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She currently serves as CEO of Red Sweater Press.
Kristin Van Tassel
- Mar 27
- 4 min
Campus Internet Help: Automated Reply
Kristin Van Tassel lives and teaches in rural Central Kansas. She writes essays and poetry about place, travel, and teaching.
Ashley Mezzano
- Mar 13
- 5 min
Hidden In the Classroom
In her youth, Ashley Mezzano would scrawl poems in her notebook and secretly wish her teacher would read them.
Abby Manzella
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Routine Knowledge
Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements.
Charlotte Cosgrove
- Feb 13
- 1 min
First Day Of Class
Charlotte Cosgrove is a Poet and English Lecturer from Liverpool, England. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.
Jon Davis
- Jan 30
- 3 min
LETTER TO HUGO FROM SANTA FE
Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and more.
Cassandra Whitaker
- Jan 16
- 2 min
When It Rains Indoors
Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and more.
Juliana Gray
- Jan 2
- 1 min
After Begging My Students, for the 87th Time, to Go Beyond Physical Description in Their Love Poems
Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017).
Carrie Esposito
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
The Children Left Behind
Carrie Esposito’s short stories have been published in The Georgia Review, Ruminate Magazine, Monkey Bicycle, The MacGuffin, and more.
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