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Synopsis
Poetry. LIVELIHOOD explores the experience of teaching in a large inner city high school in Los Angeles. These poems chronicle the stories of students and classes, faculty meetings, and the tragedies that occur in the course of a school year, as well as the Los Angeles Unified teachers strike of 1989. The third part of the book is a journal in verse of one year in the classroom.
"Congratulations to Phoebe MacAdams for these journeys through her creativity with their fine attention to the enormous importance of well-versed daily detail."—Ed Sanders
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Phoebe MacAdams has published six books: SUNDAY, Ever, ORDINARY SNAKE DANCE, LIVELIHOOD, STRANGE GRACE, and TOUCHING STONE. She has lived in California most of her adult life, first in the poetry community of Bolinas in Northern California, then in Ojai. She has been active in the Los Angeles literary community since her move to L.A. in 1986. She was a founding member of the Los Angeles Poetry festival and, for two years, ran the Gasoline Alley reading series on Melrose Avenue with poet Bill Mohr. She taught English and Creative Writing at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles until her retirement in 2011. She lives in Pasadena with her husband, Ron Ozuna.
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