Hello There!
A student just told me about this site, and told me emphatically that I should check it out knowing that I write poetry myself. As the prior sentence would suggest, I am a teacher--specifically a high school English teacher.
I've been writing poetry since I was about thirteen years old, and I've self-published an early collection of my teenage and young adult poetry a few years ago entitled, The Art of Forgetting. My hope is to one day be a truly published writer and poet, but in the meantime this might be a cool forum to test some of my poetic verse out on the world.
Cheers!