American Poet Comes to SCORES Classrooms

It is with great enthusiasm that America SCORES Denver welcomes Jack Collom, famous poet, teacher, and essayist, into our eight schools for our Fall 2009 season.  Jack has published over 17 books of poetry including Red Car Goes By and Arguing with Something Plato Said, and is the editor of three collections of writing by children. 

Jack was born in Chicago, and received his BA and MA from the University of Colorado.  He has been a free-lance teacher (mostly as Poet-in-the-Schools) for the last 25 years, and teaches part time at Naropa University.  Currently he resides in Boulder, CO, his adopted hometown, where they have recently declared and celebrated a "Jack Collom Day".

Tomorrow marks his first day in the classroom for this upcoming season, and we look forward to his contribution to the SCORES program.

For more information on Jack Collom, please visit these websites:
http://www.durationpress.com/tuumba/collom.htm
http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue2/Text/Bios/Collom_Bio.html