THE MISEDUCATION OF THE POET: High School and the Fear of Poetry by J.G. McClure When I was an undergraduate taking one of my first poetry workshops, my poet-professor joked that “high school is where poetry goes to die.” I chuckled, thinking he was simply making fun of the melodramatic effusions of teenage writers. I’ve since come to realize that what he was getting at is a much more systemic problem: that the way we’re ...