Charles Malone works with writers in the community around Kent, OH. He is the co-founder and an editor at CrayfishMag with Furnace Run Press. He won the Moonstone Arts Chapbook prize for his poems After an Eclipse of Moths. He is also the author of the collection Working Hypothesis, and the chapbook Questions About Circulation. He edited the anthologies Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry and A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park. Charles now works at the Wick Poetry Center.
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From the classroom, to the river, to the juvenile detention center, The Yellow Lectures moves through places of learning and of schooling with tenderness, vulnerability, and defiant clarity. These poems consider the responsibilities of teacher, institution, and human, by asking the difficult question of how “to make each group / answerable / to the other.” The Yellow Lectures is its own syllabus, governed by attention toward what we owe one another and what obstacles we must tear down to best attend to those needs.
–Carrie George, Author of Unbecoming.
Straightaway, our shepherd-teacher-poet Charlie tells us yellow is the color of optimism. Yes. Absolutely. And these collected poems, then, are the flavor and texture of grace, of curiosity and wonder, of earnestness & experience, of wisdom & beautifully blooming forsythia. The poems interrogate & invigorate & challenge & quench the thirst that curiosity gives to any learner—student or teacher. They are wonderful testaments to what it means to discover, prove, and improve, so that we may leave our desks, our classrooms, and our communities a little bit better than how we found them.
–Bob King, Author of And & And, and And/or
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