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"I Wish My Age Weren't Happening" with David Crosby

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Poetry in the Classroom - A New Approach to Teaching Poetics

When we started to lkat the poetry section, i realized my english students, they were just so bored t they couldn't realate. I knew exactly how they felt. It dawned on me that the english had not invented poetry, and given our culture history, my goodness, couldn't even gine the amount of poetry that was around us. So i started writing all these verses, and it suddenly made sense to them when they'd read my poems. To day, i have five collections of poetry that have been published. And my poetry is quite among tomman students, because what i write about is about them. It's about us. We as a community have not valued our

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