Poetry. LIVELIHOOD explores the experience of teaching in a large inner city high school in Los Angeles. These poems chronicle the stories of students and classes, faculty meetings, and the tragedies that occur in the course of a school year, as well as the Los Angeles Unified teachers strike of 1989. The third part of the book is a journal in verse of one year in the classroom. "Congratulations to Phoebe MacAdams for these journeys through her creativity with their fine attention to the enormous importance of well-versed daily detail"--Ed Sanders.

Author City: Pasadena, CA USA

PHOEBE MACADAMS is the author of Strange Grace (Cahuenga Press, 2007), Livelihood (Cahuenga Press, 2003), Ordinary Snake Dance (Cahuenga Press, 1994), Sunday (Tombouctou Press, 1983), and Ever (Rose Valley Press, 1985). She was a founding member of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. For two years, she ran the Gasoline Alley reading series on Melrose Avenue with the poet, Bill Mohr. She has lived in the poetry communities of Bolinas, California and Boulder, Colorado. She currently lives in Pasadena with her husband, Ron Ozuna, and teaches English at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights.