“Funny, wrenching, and compassionate, often wildly imaginative and full of wordplay, these poems
show us the bewildering intersection of lives and histories that is a high school classroom. Lois Marie
Harrod’s great skill in creating from her rich experience as poet and teacher a wide range of voices--especially those of teenage students and the imaginary teacher Alice Ann--makes Brief Term a
truly rewarding collection.”
–Judy Rowe Michaels, poet and teacher, Reviewing the Skull
“Lois Marie Harrod’s latest collection Brief Term gives us quick studies of the classroom, depicting the
joys and limitations of teaching high school. Stunning, marvelously honest, Harrod’s elegies and odes
burnish with compassion and wisdom. Her dedication to poetry and education is apparent in every
gorgeous line.
–Denise Duhamel, poet and professor, Kinky and Ka-Ching!
“This book will take you on a roller coaster of life in the classroom crucible, slowly climbing the steep
stuff, gasping, getting big views, then tumbling, roaring down, almost in free fall, executing turns that
defy physics. The pages turn as you pummel through the tunnel of dark love and the Poet takes you
off the fixed track of narrative, sometimes leaving the rails, but not the third rail. But read on, dear
reader, for you are the fortunate, willing, wily, complicit passenger in this ride, as a former student and sometime teacher yourself.”
–Scott McVay, founding executive director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
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