Mel Glenn

Mel Glenn doesn't just remember what it was like to be a teenager, he understands today's teenagers. His many poems from the varied viewpoints of today's inner city teens reveal their fears, their joys, conflicting feelings, concerns, and hopes. Using multiple narrators, his poems provide readers with broad and thought-provoking perspectives about school life, basketball, poverty, violence, love, friendships, and family relationships. As a teacher in a Brooklyn, New York, high school, he has seen it all. And his poems brings us into that world better than any one else has been able to do.

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