STORIES I TELL MY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH STUDENTS: (For Encouraging a New Generation of Writers and Poets)

“I will forever cherish the life lessons I learned from Mr. Mitchell. I learned about love, about tragedy, about overcoming setbacks and I learned about myself.” Shannon Suess “I may not remember all the poems we read in AP class, but I will remember the man who taught me a lifelong love for poetry.” Edward M. Shine “The questions you ask are spiritual, they’re real, they manifest themselves in peculiar ways that we may only glimpse once, but ponder for decades.” Andrew Steel “I read the fu...