Description
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 Bio
Phoebe MacAdams was born and raised in New York City and now lives in Southern California, with her husband, Ron Ozuna. She is retired from 26 years of teaching English and Creative Writing. She is a founding member of Cahuenga Press and has published 7 books of poetry, including ORDINARY SNAKE DANCE, LIVELIHOOD, STRANGE GRACE, TOUCHING STONE, and THE LARGE ECONOMY OF THE BEAUTIFUL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
Author City: PASADENA, CA USA