Hi, teachers! Last year, I started tagging all my poem documents. You know, giving them labels in order to find all my poems that are, say, about science, or are haiku, or whatever. I realized then that I had a fair number of poems about teachers and teaching, and I thought, Hey, maybe I can gather these together into a collection just for teachers!
So, I did. I gathered those poems, and I wrote a lot of new ones, too. The new poems often emerged right after I did school visits, attended NCTE, or saw posts on Facebook or blogs that really hit me. I was writing and writing and finally realized, I’ve got to stop at some point! And, I thought it would make a nice end-of-year book for teachers.
So, The Heart of a Teacher is available on Kindle now. It’s 64 poems in all sorts of voices and forms and attitudes. My hope is that every educator who reads it will find himself/herself in there somewhere, and that, most of all, the immense admiration I have for teachers comes through.
You can read several poems plus the Table of Contents in the Book Description on Amazon. Meanwhile, if you think you or a colleague would appreciate a poetry collection celebrating teachers, I hope you’ll check it out. Thank you, educators, for everything you have done and continue to do in my life and my family’s life. This book is for you.
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So many congratulations, Laura! What a wonderful table of contents…I was taken back to my teaching days and found myself thinking about the teachers I love so much. Teachers have huge hearts…you have written a gift. xxx
What a nice gift from you! I’ve bought it and will share. Thanks!
This is really a lovely idea!
Buying today and looking forward to sharing some with my house team at our end-of-year meetings!
I’ve kept this post so I can see about your book, and it sounds lovely, Laura. Thanks very much for creating it for teachers everywhere!