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- ISSN: 1074-4762
- E-ISSN: 1943-3069
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Handing Down Knowledge: A Poetic Apprenticeship
- Source: Voices from the Middle, Volume 10, Issue 2, Dec 2002, p. 33 - 37
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- 01 Dec 2002
Abstract
I’m a blue-collar poet. A down-home regular guy who finds poems hiding in the streets, mills, hills, and lakes around my home. I never miss a chance to remind my students of this simple fact. Telling them that I have one foot in the Maine milltown where I grew up, the other in the big north woods that surrounds the town, is how I convince my kids of the possibilities for poetry in their lives.
© 2002 by the National Council of Teachers of English