Ray Stoeser: Poetic Justice. As I prepare for the start of another school year, I find myself thinking back to a Saturday evening last spring that captured the promise of new discoveries, expanding horizons, and a brighter future that each new academic year brings.
At Thistle Coffee House on 2nd Avenue, I sat captivated as seven of my Crockett High School students performed original poetry to a room of complete strangers. A few weeks prior, I had given my English classes a creative writing assignment, and many students chose to write poems. After class one Friday, I invited the students who took this challenge to join me at Thistle for open mic night to read their work, if they felt so inclined. The Greatest Speech Ever Made.
Alan Watts discusses Nothing.