I was pleased to sit down with fellow teacher-poet Mitch Nobis at Wednesday Night Sessions to read and discuss selections from Teaching While Black, and other school-related poems.

The set list:

• stop talking

• etymology

• when asked why “all lives” don’t matter

• an open letter to the white girls caught chanting “NIGGER” on Snapchat, again

• an open letter to those wondering why I’ve called this the most racist place I’ve ever worked

• re: your aryan princess in my class
  
  

(Also, my former beard was having a good hair day.)