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Subject Sensory Details
Date January 29, 2022 1:00 AM
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[ New York City poet Todd Friedman, a retired high school teacher,
observes the silent censorship that aims to protect pupils from
themselves or perhaps from the facts of life.] [[link removed]]


PORTSIDE CULTURE

SENSORY DETAILS   [[link removed]]

 

Todd Friedman
December 14, 2121
Radical Teacher
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_ New York City poet Todd Friedman, a retired high school teacher,
observes the silent censorship that aims to protect pupils from
themselves or perhaps from the facts of life. _

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Sensory Details

By Todd Friedman

I saw you in the anthology, Walt,

“rude, unbending, lusty,”

and there you were

a live-oak growing

right there in the middle

of the high school classroom.

And I imagined the person

who picked your poem

laughing into his hand

and slapping his thigh!

But the best part was in the instructions

on the side of the page:

“Write about something in nature that

reminds you of yourself and your friends.

Use sensory details.”

A year later they put out a new edition

and the poem was gone.

Use sensory details.

 Todd Friedman is a retired NYC high school English teacher who
fought three major battles against the Department of Education.  An
arbitration decision is named after him and he won a New York Library
Association award for standing up against censorship.  His poems have
been published in _Jewish Currents, Tikkun, Midstream, Poetica, Jewish
Literary Journal, Brooklyn Eagle, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal,
_and _English Journal._

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