When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...
When I was in my early 30s I discovered David Berman's poem "Self Portrait at 28," and I read it in such a way that he proved me right about manhood. At 28, you sometimes have to squeeze your life for ...