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Teacher, poet, novelist, dad, husband, baseball coach, full-time clear-eyed optimist
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Last day for Seniors in Creative Writing today and I am so sad. What a phenomenal crew! Now I get to read all these portfolios in, like, two days and there’s no doubt I will be emotionally devastated.

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Heron family

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Herons chilling @ Hudson Mills

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Just a little baseball poem on a sunny spring day www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...

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Great day with author Patrick Flores-Scott visiting classes in C309.

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Hey, writers of all stripes, ages, experience levels - teaching a relatively inexpensive 4-session poetry workshop online Tuesday nights this summer through the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. Check it out kalbookarts.org/workshops/th...

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Hawk enjoying some Saturday morning baseball

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Despite all the trash in the world … or perhaps because of … student writes poem during fire drill

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Who says romance is dead? Most delectable (and personally relatable) promposal 2025

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youtu.be/FoVXWoYqFFE

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This round of NBA playoffs has been insane thus far

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Tried the homonym for my wife’s last name, didn’t work.

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Another beautiful day to walk around, not unlawfully imprisoned

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Another beautiful morning to be walking around the old elementary school in Ann Arbor while not unlawfully imprisoned.

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So much fun reading poems to 7th graders @ Beach Middle School in Chelsea MI today. They ask me who my favorite superhero is, you already know - The Man Without Fear …

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Bookseller and artist Jenny from Snowbound Books depicts my reading from True Believer alongside poet and musician Ronnie Ferguson

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Awesome day @ Munising HS today with terrific students and the best view from a high school parking lot anywhere in America

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When you pretend you know what it feels like to be tall

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Angel Nafis Presents Jeff Kass: book release Friday, April 18 at 7pmET Plus guest poets Carlina Duan, Shira Erlichman, Molly Pershin Raynor, Noah Arhm Choi & Lauren Whitehead Register here: tinyurl.com/jeffkassattack Zoom link: tinyurl.com/jeffkasszoom BUY THE BOOK HERE: tinyurl.com/thismansbook

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Cool piece in The Rumpus about the new poetry collection therumpus.net/2025/03/28/w...

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Tomorrow is the big day! Book launch for True Believer @ 7pm, Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor in the Little Theater! Check out the book here - www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...

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Here’s a link to a piece in Pulp that says more about my new poetry collection True Believer!   pulp.aadl.org/node/640172   Hope to see you Thursday @ 7pm in the Little Theater @ Pioneer HS for the official launch!

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What a day today if you’re Aaron Judge or Paige Bueckers. Feel lucky to be able to watch both of them. So bummed Paige won’t be able to match up against Juju Watkins though.

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