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Writer, builder, artist, English composition teacher, outdoors educator, caver, coal miner and Christian philosopher aren’t titles commonly associated with a single person, but are apt in remembering the life and times of Stan Badgett.
English literature needs to expand beyond Western canon Written By: Asher Price / Austin American-Statesman | 11:00 am, Mar. 10, 2021 × Lorena German, an English teacher and co-founder of Multicultural Classroom, at her home in Austin on Jan. 21, 2021. Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/TNS AUSTIN, Texas –Lorena Germán, an Austin teacher who has worked to revamp the traditional English class reading list, has a saying: "It's one thing to take candy from a baby. It's another to take a classic text from an English teacher." As a member of the collective #DisruptTexts, Germán is...
Deep Water: ‘Willow Street,’ by Jonathan Aldrich Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. Share This week we feature a poem by the accomplished and much beloved Cape Elizabeth poet Jonathan Aldrich, who passed away last week. In “Willow Street,” from Aldrich’s first book, the speaker describes a place “not far from here” that also seems to be something more than a place. As the poem weaves gracefully between the tangible and the abstract, the space and state it conjures feel both mysterious and deeply, timelessly familiar. Aldrich wrote over a dozen books in his 40...