Peter Markus is the Senior Writer with InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit. His book, Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools, offers readers an inside look at his approach in the classroom. Over the years his essays on teaching have appeared with some regularity in Teachers & Writers Magazine. His other books include the book of poems When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds, published by Wayne State University Press in 2021, as well as the novel Bob, or Man on Boat and...