They came with orange teeth and iron mouths,surveyors laughing in bright vests, chainsaws like hymns.Wood fell in slow, appalling arcs—husks breaking,old trunks toppling like small cathedrals collapsing.Sap ran red along the cuts, a ribbon of stolen blood;sawdust snowed the yards, white as a sudden cemetery. Where giants stood, there are stumps—circles of exposed grief—and in … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Elegy” – Deep Roots, v.2
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Imperative of Integrating Social and News Media Literacy into Teacher-Preparation
Executive summary Thesis: Teacher-preparation programs must embed scaffolded, assessed social and news media literacy competencies so new teachers can teach students to evaluate, create, and ethically use digital media—strengthening classroom learning, civic resilience, and informed citizenship. Core proposal: A modular curriculum (5 modules + capstone/micro-credential) integrated into existing pedagogy courses, with performance assessments, equity adaptations, … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Imperative of Integrating Social and News Media Literacy into Teacher-Preparation
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Few of William Shakespeare’s plays wear contradiction as visibly as this one. The Merchant of Venice is at once a brisk romantic comedy, a courtroom drama, and a text that forces readers and audiences to confront the social prejudices of its world. Its pleasures — verbal dexterity, structural neatness, tightly matched plot-lines — sit uneasily … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Shrouds over the Porchlight – (Darkness Approaching, v.3)
After the last "trick or treat" the lamps inhale and die;porches become bier-topped stages, candy wrappers like confetti for the dead.The moon wakes, a cadaverous lantern, rimmed with the frost of old graves,and clouds draw their black shrouds close, stitching the sky shut. Leaves rasp like paper from hymnals, skittering across wet stone;laughter hangs, a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Shrouds over the Porchlight – (Darkness Approaching, v.3)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Macbeth is a compact, volcanic tragedy: a play in which Shakespeare concentrates moral, psychological, and political energy into a span of action so compressed that every word feels charged. At its heart is an ethical experiment — what happens when a capable man is offered power by a fate he cannot fully control and a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Darkness Approaching, v.2
After the porch-lights gutter and laughter thins,paper pumpkins sag on stoops — candy gone.A thin moon slides out from under washed clouds,pale as a coin pressed to a child's palm.Leaves skitter across asphalt, a dry applause;a single crow crops the silence sharp. Doorsteps sleep; small beds swell with sugar dreams.In those rooms the dark is … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Darkness Approaching, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King Lear by William Shakespeare
King Lear is one of the summit tragedies of William Shakespeare, a play in which familial rupture, the failure of language, and the cruelty of the world coalesce into an experience that is at once unbearably intimate and cosmically bleak. Reading King Lear as a literary scholar, one is struck less by a single “message” … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King Lear by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.3 – Grime & Grotesque
The night splits open like a mouth with broken teeth,a sound that tastes of rust and stale whiskey.Somebody spits a laugh down the gutter —it bounces off wet brick and comes back hungry. I lift my chin. The moon hangs there, swollen,a jaundiced coin stuck to the ribs of bare trees,one watery eye watching for … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.3 – Grime & Grotesque
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Othello by William Shakespeare
The play of jealousy, race, and rhetorical violence Few of Shakespeare’s plays put language itself on trial as insistently as this one. At its centre is a private catastrophe writ large: a great man undone not by battlefield enemy but by a smaller, domestic poison—suspicion seeding itself until it becomes murderous. The drama’s compact architecture … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Othello by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.2
A sound shatters the moonlit quiet —one thin cry that splits the hush,makes the chest lift, makes eyes climb upwardto the ghost-moon pinned between bare branches. It hangs like a deliberate coin, pale and small,hovering where twig-silhouettes stitch the sky;a patient light that pulls the throat tight,that leaves the mouth empty and the pulse loud. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.2
The New Renaissance Mindset 