Jaime D.
- Ann Arbor, MI 48103 ( 16 mi )
- Poetry Tutor
- Female Age 42
- Member Since: 11/2012
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $40.00 to $60.00 /hr
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My comments on tutoring Poetry : I have a Masters in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where I was awarded a Zell Postgraduate Fellowship and was a semi-finalist for the Thoerdore Roethke Hopwood Award. My collection of poems, Point of Sand, was awarded the Michigan Writers Chapbook Award in 2009. In addition to spending my summers on the Creative Writing Faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts where I teach high school poetry majors, I currently teach in the English department at the University of Michigan.
I had a wonderful teacher once who quoted a line from a Richard Brautigan book that went, "My teachers could easily have ridden with Jessie James for all the time they stole from me." He told us about making a promise to himself, when he began teaching, that he would never be the sort of teacher a student could say this about. I made the same promise when I began teaching. I have been blessed with some tremendous, inspirational teachers, and, like most of us, I have also had the lousy ones (the ones who admire test scores above creativity, who stack their bookshelves with textbooks instead of poems and stories, who prefer power to respect). My goal every day as a teacher is to work in a way that will bring me closer to those gifted teachers, and that will make the less than inspirational teachers shake their heads. In other words, I respect my students as human beings. I genuinely ... read more
