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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University and a former poet laureate of the United Kingdom.

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 03, 2018

Four Poems

“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”

by Andrew Motion | Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Too Much Poetic License

An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 05, 2016

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”