This week I reread the 2003 poetry collection, Teaching with Fire:Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach. It is actually the second time I've reread it. The first time I read it was in 2007. I was a new high school librarian. I'd been a teacher for 25 years but now I was in a new role within the school -- librarian. I read Teaching with Fire looking for inspiring poems I could share with teachers to encourage them for those hard days. I found a lot in it to not only encourage others, but a...
