April is National Poetry Month, a celebration of poets and poetry that's been in place for 25 years.

Last month, as the U.S. grieved over attacks against Asian Americans, NPR's Morning Edition collected poems on how people grapple with the increased violence and discrimination.

Over 500 listeners shared powerful, poignant poems — in the form of a list beginning with the word "today." They showcased fear, anger, empathy and motivation to make the world a better place.

NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander took lines from the submissions to create a community poem, "Today, I Am A Witness To Change."

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To quote just a few:

Today I hesitate

for the first time, I wonder if I should stay home and not walk the neighborhood.

it's not the weather or the virus — the day is beautiful

Today

I'm frozen

Terrified.

I cannot hide

This skin

This hair

These eyes.

I see the punch, punch, punch of a community at war.

Today I am a witness.

I rush past the jeering white boys that say I brought corona to America.

My soul is wary.

Today, a video call full of empty boxes

Stares at me, apprehensively.

Students locked behind a screen

Their hearts and minds

Severed

From one another.

Today, the headlines say March Madness

Today, I don't watch basketball.

The madness is in the streets.

In broad daylight.

On the concrete sidewalks of New York.

In the silence of bystanders.

It's in the textbooks. The classrooms. The family dinners. The lies we tell.

Today the rain falls

and falls

and falls

and falls.

a silent tear from a weeping woman.

Today, I will say their names

I will cancel class and try again tomorrow.

That's a scary thought to commute to NYC nowadays for me, even I'm FULLY inoculated. :-(((

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In the shade of an old mango tree, a pleasant place to learn.

School of Art and Gardening of "Formoso".

São José do Barreiro, São Paulo, Brazil.

Teacher is gone, Students are gone…Time has taken over for a lesson in decay

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From the series "See you Tomorrow"

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auch Glimmertintlinge brauchen Unterricht..Szene aus diesem Spätherbst aus meinem Hauswald.

Pandarine was kind enough to let me use some pictures of soap making she had taken at a fair. The kids are holding samples of soap a past class and I had made. They LOVED the photos!

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Behind the writing workstation, I have my Cafe Board. It was a little bigger bullentin board than I needed, so the long black strip beside it is where I posted the steps of the writing process. I didn't post the writing steps until I taught them.

leshan,sichuan四川乐山

a customer, who's a elementary art teacher, bought this piece and hung it in her classroom for the kids! i thought that was pretty neat.

Canon EOS 3000, Kodak Portra 160

see the description on the previous image

bigger version

Whitehaven Theatre Group's 'Our House'

Made up from 10 separate pictures, each individually lit.

- Canon 1D mk3 on tripod

- Canon 580EX-II hand held by assistant, hotshoe extension wire

- Light modifier Lastolite softbox

- Camera & Flash in manual mode

I will try to remember to post a single picture from this set for comparison.

shot of the classroom where my FYS class meets

This shot on the Annual Day Celebrations of our school... We had hours of programs and enjoyment ...This is how our class looked after the celebration :D

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週末去淡江中學晃了一圈

那裡很美，足以讓人流連忘返

在那穿堂走著，轉進了一間教室

教室放滿了許多課本，黑板上殘留著未擦的筆跡

在週末空無一人的教室裡，有著高中生留下的時光汗水

當初的我們，這時候的年紀，可是這樣啃著書本長大過來

單純的唸書、很簡單的生活、身邊的一群好朋友、混著無敵青春的歡笑

真是令人懷念的生活

Ricoh GR Digital 2.

View Large in Black

Nikon FE + AF NIKKOR 35mm F2.0 + KODAK VISION3 250D Color Negative Film 5207 + 自由數位

In Karol Radziszewski's exhibition titled "The Classroom" at the Moderna Museum, Stockholm.

I was staring at the lonely window and I could not resist to frame it.

Canon 600D + Auto Revuenon 50mm 1.4

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Nikon Df / Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 18-35mm F3.5-4.5G ED

There were plans for school to resume onsite classes until the third wave of covid hit the city. Schools are presently used an vaccination sites.

Hasselblad 503cxi / portra 160　

3rd grade students in SDN 12 Benhil, Central Jakarta. One of the best public school I have seen. See Dream Classroom for comparison. School facility was rebuilt in 2006, currently has 255 students with 10 full time and 4 part time teachers.

Mitaka Tokyo

A science classroom and a liberal arts classroom that can serve as bookends (well, if the books aren't too heavy)

20150405

Canon DemiEE17

DNP Centuria 400 expired 2010

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Classroom at Gloucestershire College showing how learning technologies are embedded into the room to support, enhance and enrich learning.

Hide away the computers when not being used. Allows for more flexible delivery and learning.

One disadvantage is the layout of the room can not be changed.

SLU Madrid students receiving a History class in one of the classrooms on Campus.

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This Classroom in iraq :(