Bearing Witness

The private perspectives of teachers and the art of their special profession are captured in this poetry anthology. These 120 poems from 70 poets are about teaching, learning, students, and the inner lives of educators. Far from cute, sappy, or schmaltzy, these poems reflect the realities and complexities of teachers' work, lives, and relationships with students. The full range of classroom experiences is represented in these poems, running the gamut from witty and inspired to reflective, sympathetic, frustrated, and exhausted.