Heather Kirn Lanier: 2 books
Teaching in the Terrordome
Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America’s most...
by Heather Kirn Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
“Heather Lanier’s The Story You Tell Yourself may be a first book, but Lanier’s firm intelligence and lyrical artistry make poems that are clearly the confident work of an extraordinarily accomplished, even thrilling, poet. Lanier isn’t kidding when she says, auda-ciously, ‘I found a shape...