POETRY for the Kathy Lee Gifford Child Labor Sweatshop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781975643782)

Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth believed poetry should be about every day events and people. Charles Bukowski felt poetry should get to the point. James Geist grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania, and he is a graduate of Nyack College and the Alliance Theological Seminary. He served as an urban pastor in NYC for five years and worked on social justice issues such as sweatshops, child labor, genocide in Sudan and modern day slavery. Geist has served as a History teacher in NYC in NYC for 13 years and in Newark NJ for 2 years. He was voted Teacher of the Year in 2012. His students called him "Mr. Incredible," and encouraged him to write a memoir, which he did in January of 2017.

Author: James Curtis Geist
ISBN-10: 197564378X
ISBN-13: 9781975643782
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2017
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d