Chris Brockman is a retired English instructor and an avocational poet and writer. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Oakland University and an MA in English/Written Communication from Eastern Michigan University. After teaching middle school AG Language Arts for six years, he taught community college English and writing courses for fourteen years. For the past eight and a half years he has written and posted his own original poems weekly on his Real Poetry for Real People Facebook page. He maintains his interest in and practice of ordinary language philosophy, which underlies everything he writes.