A Wednesday series from Ethical ELA featuring writers on the poets whose words stay with us—and why we keep returning.
The Poets We Return To is a Wednesday series on Ethical ELA, featuring writers reflecting on the poets whose words they return to and the ways those poems continue to work on their lives, teaching, and writing. We continue today with Ann Burg’s essay. My …
The Poets We Return To is a Wednesday series on Ethical ELA, featuring writers reflecting on the poets whose words they return to and the ways those poems continue to work on their lives, teaching, and writing. We continue today with Ryan Burns’ essay on …
There are poets we read, and there are poets we return to. Their words find us again in classrooms, in our own writing, in seasons of change, grief, wonder, and becoming. Sometimes we return to a single poem. Sometimes to a line we have carried …
Over the years, one of the questions I have been asked most often is, “Who are your favorite poets?” I never know quite how to answer because my answer changes with the seasons. Some poets stay beside me for years. Others arrive when I need …