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RIP John Taylor Gatto

John Gatto was my mentor teacher my first year of teaching in NYC circa 1990. I think he’d already been named NYC Teacher of the Year twice by that time although I didn’t know it. He would leave teaching the … Continue reading

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For poems apologized for

I have had the grace to be in the right place at the right time. Or maybe, if I reflect back on it, and on poems apologized forĀ in the Nation, I might have to say that I was really just … Continue reading

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