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Pronounced /hō-ÉL/ 🤠 MiddleAgedMiddleChild.com
HS English teacher. Cofounder #THEBOOKCHAT. Indie publishing & lit in translation enthusiast. Trying a social-media-dry January. 🤠📚👊🏽
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Fuqdat 😬😱
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This interview gives a taste of the book, but it’s mostly about working for years with Prince
HIGHLY recommend 🎤🎸😱https://youtu.be/9Iv__walYL4?feature=shared
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My friend designed this lesson on that poem for her HS Ss to kick off the new year 🔥🗓️ teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...
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Great ideas, great protocols & examples throughout for sure!
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On a related note: Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go? Not a difficult Q—“If I go, there will be trouble / And if I stay, it will be double”
You should GO in order to avoid *double* trouble
[ahem]
[sees self out]
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And this podcast episode! overcast.fm/+AA9URK9lzPs
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Right?! So nice on the ear, the eye, & the brain :)
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“Ravens /
ride the storms, black boats with slow /
black oars.” 😱🤯🫶🏽
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Any chance you would be willing to post a single teaser poem? 🤠🤞🏽
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Any update / improvement?
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Hang in there🫶🏽
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That sh1t is wrong
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It has treated me so right. I need to get feedback from more Ss about it, but anecdotally it seems like it works really well for them
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2025 will be the year of the flask for ya boy 😬🤣🤷🏽♂️
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I definitely shared Jessica Salfia’s plan, linked here!
🔥🗓️
teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...
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Omg this is the one, man ENJOY!
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LOVE this feature—thanks for sharing! 🤠🫶🏽
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Hard agree!
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Álvaro Enrigue for this amazing piece of hallucinatory mostly-historical fiction about Cortés & Moctezuma! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no
particular order.
My explanation / gratitude & url to purchase is in the alt text
#Books
#BookSky'
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
Day 20/20
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Right back atcha, friend! 🎄🫶🏽
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Merry Chriskukkah from this interfaith house! 🤠🫶🏽
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Love it! Nerdy English teacher flex: Editor Floyd Cheung is my friend :)
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My jr / sr poetry seminar got *really* granular on interpreting / appreciating craft, so this book on varieties of poetic line (esp line break slash line end) elevated things for us all. HIGHLY recommend
www.graywolfpress.org/books/art-po...
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
My explanation / gratitude & url to purchase is in the alt text 🤠🫶🏽
#Books
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
Day 19/20
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Loving this so far!
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Omg would love to hear / see what your Ss do that might work for my HS students
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Love this lesson & invitation! Here’s how i walk through Fatimah Asghar’s ghazal “Ghareeb” docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I am soooooo enjoying that podcast 🤠🤔
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I really miss teaching it!
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
My explanation / gratitude & url to purchase is in the alt text 🤠🫶🏽
#Books
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
Day 18/20
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Alt text for you :)
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😱😬🤣😱😬🤣
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Even with the newly discovered ending? youtu.be/heOHcCNKlwU?...
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Shots fired, dayyyum! 😬🤣🤷🏽♂️
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Perhaps a niche who-cares opinion, but Owen Meany? Four thumbs down
I held my breath for *years*, worried that the novel would take root in HS curricula, and I feel vindicated / relieved that he / it is just [sigh] forgotten
FARE THEE WELL, OVERPRAISED MAUDLIN BOOK!
[stamps Hater Nation passport]