Kelly Salasin

Category: Schools

  • Touching the Heart of Childhood~ a visit with poetry teacher extraordinaire~ Ann Gengarelly

    “If we forget poetry, we will forget ourselves.” Octavia Paz Most know Ann Gengarelly through the children– and the poetry they write– under her care.  These poems have traveled from the hearts of families and friends in her home state of Vermont–to the floor of the United States Senate, where “Distance,”  a student’s poem about…

  • Young at Heart (Never Grow Up!)

    I remember the exact moment that I became a grownup.  It was on a playground in a suburb outside Philadelphia, and I was only twenty-one years old.   A six-year old, named Danny Goldstein, was to blame. I’d spent the better part of my youth avoiding “growing up” because I knew that I didn’t want any…