Ethan Trinh,Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

The preceding poem is an excerpt from an in-press article titled “From Creative Writing to a Self’s Liberation: A Monologue of a Struggling Writer.” I used afound poetry activity to guide me in this piece. Throughout this poem, I would like to encourage teachers to be creative in writing instructions and practices. We are all born to be creative and be different; let’s make our classroom a space of blossoming creativity where we can further imagination beyond the textbook and stay true to who we truly are.

In addition, I split my profile picture in half and inserted the title “SCHOOL” between the two halves because I want to express my teacher identities in a strong and powerful voice: I write to fight against injustice, discrimination, heterosexism, and oppression in schools and in academia.