Teaching Is a Life Sentence

Students and teachers, teachers and students: they are the earliest and most abiding characters in my reading, my writing, and my life.

As this website evolves, I will share with you a web of poems, narratives, essays, and interviews. The common threads are living and learning,
and teaching and learning,
and living and teaching,
and learning and teaching,
and living…

Teaching is a life sentence.

About the Author

Yvonne Chism-Peace is a teacher, fiction writer, and essayist. She writes and edits poetry under the pseudonym Yvonne.

Her three-volume epic trilogy, IWILLA/SOIL (Chameleon 1985), IWILLA/SCOURGE (Chameleon 1986), IWILLA/RISE (Chameleon 1999), was published with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts [1974, 1984], the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation [1974], the New York State Council on the Arts [1981], and the Bronx Council on the Arts [1991].

A former editor of Aphra, the pioneer feminist literary journal of the early 'Seventies, Yvonne was poetry editor at Ms. magazine from 1973-1986.

In 2003 she received a Leeway Foundation award for her short fiction.


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