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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.
Ethan Trinh is a doctoral student at the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University, USA. He is inspired to do research about queer transnationals, ESL/ESOL, Vietnamese studies, and meditation through the lens of Chicana feminism. Ethan is a coeditor of the Social Responsibility Interest Section (SRIS) newsletter at TESOL International |
