Tips for Teaching in America

In Tips for Teaching in America, Joshua Roark delivers a sharp, unflinching poetry collection drawn from the lived realities of the classroom. Written from the perspective of a teacher navigating the emotional, political, and deeply human terrain of American education, these poems capture moments of humor, grief, resistance, and unexpected grace.

Set against the backdrop of the Mississippi Delta, Roark's work explores the fragile rituals of school life, the language students and teachers use...