Dream Teaching

Poems humorous, poignant, and inspiring recreate life as it is lived in and out of a high school classroom in Dream Teaching.

Dream Teaching can be purchased at Amazon.

Or, to obtain copies of Dream Teaching from the publisher, send a check for $12.00 for each book, plus a $2.50 shipping and handling fee for your order to:

Grayson Books
P.O. Box 270549
West Hartford, CT 06127

Include your name, address, the number of copies you are ordering, and be sure to specify DREAM TEACHING as the book you are ordering.

Reviews for Dream Teaching

The Washington DC Examiner columnist Erica Jacobs wrote about Dream Teaching Read the column here.

“Sometimes about his students, sometimes about teaching them and the people who’ve taught him, Ed Romond’s poems explore with humor and poignancy the great classroom interplay that doesn’t exist in any text or manual. At their best, his poems transcend the classroom and deftly move into the arena of the broadly human. Dream Teaching is a pleasure and Romond is the dream teacher most of us were not lucky enough to have.”
— Stephen Dunn
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

“Romond’s poetry doesn’t create a romantic view of life in the classroom. For him, while information must be passed on to students, a larger message — like the humanity and compassion consistently found in his poetry — is written on the souls of his students.
— Charles H. Johnson
Home News Tribune

“Dream Teaching sings thanks to technical superiority and accessibility. The author builds crisp images on a framework of rhythmic language reminiscent of mid-20th century pastoral masters such as Robert Frost. Edwin Romond is a hidden gem.”
— D. E. Kern
The Express-Times

“Dream Teaching is a remarkable book about learning and teaching, teaching and learning. Romond’s poems are so powerful that many times I had to put down his book and remember, “Yes, that it is the way it was.” He not only has a sense of humor but compassion and the reader knows this is a rare bird at the head of the class. How lucky were his students!”
— Ruth Twichell Cochrane
The Journal of New Jersey Poets

“Romond’s collection provides a beautifully real portrait of the career of English teacher with all its joys and uncertainties. I will keep Dream Teaching on my desk throughout the year for those times when I need to be reminded of the connection between wonder and hard work.”
— Bill Connolly
Co-Director
The National Writing Project at Rowan University

“Dream Teaching” Poster

Dream Teaching Poster Designed and illustrated by Elaine Goodman, this is a 16 x 22 color poster suitable for framing. The poem, a celebration of a teacher’s dream day at school, comes to life among delightful illustrations vividly presented on a background of blue sky and puffy clouds.

This poem has appeared in The English Journal, the college text books, Bridging English, and Writing for a Lifetime: Contemporary Readings from Popular Sources, and is also the title poem of Romond’s new book from Grayson Books.

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