Someone Hand Me a Microphone

Young Poets

by Nicanor Parra

(trans. by Miller Williams)

Write as you will

In whatever style you like

Too much blood has run under the bridge

To go on believing

That only one road is right.

In poetry everything is permitted.

With only this condition of course,
You have to improve the blank page.

This is my Philosophy of Education. My students should, at all costs, avoid that road most traveled. If paralysis of our culture is to be avoided, students must go out into the world with a volume level set to YELL above the masses.
My goal is to create an environment where students can use their voices to shape their futures.
If you want to put my platform in a box, feel free. I have never been comfortable in boxes. I get claustrophobic.