by Danielle Coty-Fattal
May 26, 2022

This guest author post is a Q&A with Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno, authors of Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service, now in a new and expanded edition from the University of Michigan Press. This book is available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. Cops, Teachers, Counselors was the first major study to use the stories told by frontline workers such as cops, teachers, and counselors, to analyze how they understand their own street-level work. What does this approach reveal? Most of us encounter frontline workers in our everyday lives. What is a cop, teacher, or […]
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by Kathryn Beaton
October 1, 2018

Our new Fulcrum Community Manager, Emma DiPasquale, studied under our author Philip Metres at John Carroll University. Below, she interviews him about his new book The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance, which was released in September. He also will be visiting Ann Arbor to read (with author Aimee Bender) on November 15. You join over a hundred other poets who have contributed to the Poets on Poetry series. What drew you to it? When I was in graduate school researching poets and the peace movement, I first encountered the series through volumes by the poet William Stafford: You […]
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