On Teaching: Dedicated to All My Students- Poets.org

	On Teaching: Dedicated to All My Students Selected by Gladys Acosta-Melendez
	Description This year I will retire after almost 42 years of teaching. It has been a splendid journey. I learned so much from my students. So the education was on me. I dedicate this notebook to all my students. I hope they know how much I loved teaching and the honor it has been for me. I hope they have learned to love poetry as much as I do. Poetry is life and life is poetry. Keep a poem in your heart. You will never know when you may need one to soothe your day.
	Synopsis A collection of poems devoted to teaching, learning and just being in the now.

Poetry
•	As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] by William Shakespeare
•	Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
•	I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
•	Invictus by William Ernest Henley
•	Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
•	M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine
•	My life has been the poem I would have writ by Henry David Thoreau
•	Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear
•	O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
•	Patience by Kay Ryan
•	The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
•	The Teacher by Hilarie Jones
•	To Rosa by Abraham Lincoln
•	We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
•	You Begin by Margaret Atwood


Prose
•	Can Poets Teach?: On Writers Teaching Writing by Joan Houlihan
•	Poetry Landmark: Langston Hughes's hometown of Lawrence, KS
•	Walking Tour: Walt Whitman's SoHo Historic District in New York City by Elizabeth Kray