Teaching with Heart

A Note to Our Readers by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner xi Foreword by Parker J. Palmer xxi Introduction by Taylor Mali xxvii Relentless Optimism 1 Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" reflection by Randi Weingarten 2 Fleet Foxes' "Helplessness Blues" reflection by Stephen Lazar 4 Marianne Williamson's "A Return to Love" [Excerpt] reflection by Rachel Willis 6 Edgar Lee Masters's "George Gray" reflection by Mel Glenn 8 Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" reflection by Kaitlin Roig 10 Rudyard Kipling's "if" reflection by Andy Wood 12 Loris Malaguzzi's "No Way. The Hundred is There." reflection by Tiffany Poirier 14 Gerald Jonas's "Lessons" reflection by Julie A. Gorlewski 16 Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" reflection by Kevin Hodgson 18 Teachable Moments 21 Rainier Maria Rilke's "All will come again into its strength" reflection by Gregory John 22 Richard Wilbur's "The Writer" reflection by Emily Brisse 24 Theodore Roethke's "The Waking" reflection by Nora Landon 26 Emily Dickinson's "'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!" reflection by Lily Eskelsen García 28 Paul Boswell's "This Splendid Speck" reflection by Christine Intagliata 30 Stanley Kunitz's "Halley's Comet" reflection by Rob Maitra 32 Emily Dickinson's "If I can stop one Heart from breaking" reflection by Annette Breaux 34 John O'Donohue's "Beannacht" reflection by Emanuel Pariser 36 D. H. Lawrence's "The Best of School" reflection by Tom Vander Ark 38 Beauty in the Ordinary 41 Fernando Pessoa's "To Be Great, Be Entire" reflection by Vicki Den Ouden 42 Naomi Shihab Nye's "Famous" reflection by Safaa Abdel-Magid 44 Pablo Neruda's "In Praise of Ironing" reflection by Cindy O'Donnell-Allen 46 Louise Glück's "Aubade" reflection by Kent Dickson 48 W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" [Excerpt] reflection by Jamie Raskin 50 Stephen Crane's "LVIII" reflection by Liam Corley 52 Mary Oliver's "Crossing the Swamp" reflection by Maureen Geraghty 54 Philip Levine's "What Work Is" reflection by Holly Masturzo 56 Walt Whitman's "Section II from 'Song of Myself' " reflection by Jennifer Boyden 58 Enduring Impact 61 Naomi Shihab Nye's "Kindness" reflection by Hannah Cushing 62 Margaret Atwood's "You Begin" reflection by Karen Harris 64 Thich Nhat Hanh's "Please Call Me by My True Names" reflection by Ruth Charney 66 William Stafford's "Deciding" reflection by Michael Poutiatine 68 Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together" reflection by Wanda S. Praisner 70 John O'Donohue's "Blessing: For Presence" reflection by David Henderson 72 Tara Sophia Mohr's "Your Other Name" reflection by Lianne Raymond 74 Jim R. Rogers's "Good Morning!" reflection by Jane Zalkin 76 Galway Kinnell's "Saint Francis and the Sow" reflection by Kirsten Olson 78 The Work Is Hard 81 Antonio Machado's "VI" reflection by Michael L. Crauderueff 82 Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" reflection by Kathleen Melville 84 Calvin Coolidge's "Persistence" reflection by April Niemela 86 Sharon Olds's "On the Subway" reflection by Lori Ungemah 88 Anonymous's "Work Gloves" reflection by Tom Meyer 90 William Stafford's "Next Time" reflection by Leanne Grabel Sander 92 Emily Dickinson's "We grow accustomed to the Dark--" reflection by Rachel Fentin 94 Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" reflection by Ronald Gordon 96 Wislawa Szymborska's "Life While-You-Wait" reflection by Veta Goler 98 Tenacity 101 Tupac Shakur's "The Rose That Grew from Concrete" reflection by Jose Vilson 102 Philip Levine's "M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942" reflection by Laura Roop 104 Mel King's "Struggle" reflection by Susan Rodgerson 106 Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B" reflection by Paola Tineo 108 Irene Rutherford McLeod's "Lone Dog" reflection by LouAnne Johnson 110 Billy Collins's "On Turning Ten" reflection by Will Bangs 112 Edgar A. Guest's "It Couldn't Be Done" reflection by Glendean Hamilton 114 Lao-Tzu's "On Leadership" reflection by Larry Rosenstock 116 William Ernest Henley's "Invictus" reflection by Caridad Caro 118 Feisty 121 Rumi's "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing" reflection by Hugh Birdsall 122 Mary Oliver's "The Poet Dreams of the Classroom" reflection by Katie Johnson 124 Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son" reflection by Ron Walker 126 Jane Kenyon's "Otherwise" reflection by Alison Overseth 128 Richard Brautigan's "The Memoirs of Jessie James" reflection by Stephen Mahoney 130 Marge Piercy's "To be of use" reflection by Amy Christie 132 Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" reflection by Mary Beth Hertz 134 Olive Senior's "Colonial Girls School" reflection by Dena Simmons 136 The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell's "An Innocent Freedom Writer" reflection by Kayleigh Colombero 138 Moment to Moment 141 Bill Holm's "Advice" reflection by Teri O'Donnell 142 Katha Pollitt's "Lilacs in September" reflection by David S. Goldstein 144 Herman Hesse's "The Ferryman" reflection by Rachel Boechler 146 Mark Nepo's "The Appointment" reflection by Judy Sorum Brown 148 Captain Ed Davidson's "Footprints by the Sea" reflection by Sandi Bisceglia 150 Rumi's "The Guest House" reflection by Richard H. Ackerman 152 Chuang Tzu's "Flight from the Shadow" reflection by Mark Bielang 154 Thomas Merton's "In Silence" reflection by Thomas A. Stewart 156 Derek Walcott's "Love After Love" reflection by Tim Ryan 158 Together 161 John Daniel's "A Prayer among Friends" reflection by Melissa Madenski 162 Maya Angelou's "Alone" reflection by Nina Ashur 164 Stephen Dunn's "The Sacred" reflection by Dan Mindich 166 James A. Autry's "On Firing A Salesman" reflection by Brian Dixon 168 Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to make much of Time" reflection by Cordell Jones 170 Lucille Clifton's "blessing the boats" reflection by Kathleen Glaser 172 Raymond Carver's "Happiness" reflection by Dennis Huffman 174 X. J. Kennedy's "Little Elegy" reflection by Kenneth Rocke 176 Mel Glenn's "A Teacher's Contract" reflection by Harriet Sanford 178 Called to Teach 181 Gary Snyder's "For the Children" reflection by Julia Hill 182 Maya Angelou's "The Lesson" reflection by Jovan Miles 184 Gregory Orr's "It's not magic; it isn't a trick" reflection by John Mayer 186 Judy Sorum Brown's "Hummingbirds asleep" reflection by Sandie Merriam 188 John Fox's "When Someone Deeply Listens to You" reflection by Nell Etheredge 190 Alexis Rotella's "Purple" reflection by Leatha Fields-Carey 192 William Stafford's "The Way It Is" reflection by Donna Y. Chin 194 Langston Hughes's "I loved my friend" reflection by Margaret Wilson 196 Wendell Berry's "The Real Work" reflection by Amy Harter 198 Using Poetry for Reflection and Conversation 201 Afterword by Sarah Brown Wessling 221 Center for Courage & Renewal 223 The Contributors 225 The Editors 241 Gratitudes 243 Credits 245