Wind knifes the shore and keeps its rude counsel;two salt-bleached lengths lie like old bones—one half-buried, the other split and cuppedas if to hold what the tide forgot. They bear the maps of storms: dark rings, sun-bleached grain,a barnacled thumb where some net once caught.Around them voices spool — hot, bright, and short —the human … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Angered Conversants, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Irma S. Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking is an unlikely classic: at once a pragmatic manual, a conversational memoir, and — when read closely — a vernacular text that helped shape twentieth-century American domestic culture. First self-published in 1931 as a modest compilation of tested recipes and “casual culinary chat,” the book rapidly left the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
Notice the hare— a seam in the field:fur threaded from river silt to sky-smoke,a mottled map that answers no one. It folds into the green, spine a taut wire,breath stitched thin along a blade of grass.Eyes half-open like coins tilted to light,a small percussion beating behind the ribs. Ears pivot—radar for footstep and wing-shadow—listening to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins’s Roomanitarian is a compact blast of the author’s characteristic electricity: part essay collection, part personal manifesto, and entirely tuned to the register of a voice that has been honed on stages, bus trips, and the small, unforgiving hours of hotel rooms. First published by Rollins’s own 2.13.61 press in 2005, the book runs … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
i don’t know love by the book —i know it by the smell of your coat after rain,by the neon bruise that hums outside our window,by a coffee cup that rings like a bell when you set it down. i love a smile that’s crooked like a bad harmonica,it sneaks up on me from the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has long worn many faces — punk provocateur, spoken-word performer, travel diarist, cultural gadfly — and A Dull Roar reads like the distilled audio of those public selves turned inward. The book insists on being heard: its sentences are kinetic, its cadence muscular, and its moral energy rarely sits idle. As a work … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v6. (Sonnet)
i count the moments when your hand finds mine,small clockwork measures that unseat the dark.your smile, a ledger, balances the day;your voice, an ordered tide, refines my thought.i learn the grammar of your silences,repay them with a careful, steady ear.we argue, not to wound, but to be clearer;we fail, then practice courage like a craft.there … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v6. (Sonnet)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Sue Roe’s In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art is a capacious, elegiac portrait of a place and a moment. It threads biography, cultural history, and close-looking criticism to argue that Montmartre — with its cafés, studios, cheap lodgings and convivial degradations — was not merely backdrop but active engine of a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
i’m not sure what love is,but i can list its ridiculous perks. i love a grin that sneaks up like a catand ambushes my morning coffee.i love eyes that play hide-and-seekwith the important bits of my face. i love hands that high-five and then apologizefor being so good at holding things.i love hugs that smuggle … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
In an era dominated by digital media, media and information literacy—the competencies to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act with information across media—should be treated as a foundational skill alongside reading and numeracy. International frameworks frame media literacy as a teachable, scaffoldable competency that can and should be embedded into core curricula rather than treated … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
The New Renaissance Mindset 