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Subject: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My frowning students carve
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form


E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My frowning students carve
Last Line: As all the rest of my class is %bound to discover
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by NICK CARBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He then asked me, japanese
Last Line: Brush against his sculpted thigh
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ship %I wrote on the empty blackboard
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is in the front of his desk
Last Line: I am in the king's place
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH WAS ONLY A SECONG LANGUAGE, by WALTA BORAWSKI    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Homosexuality; Incest


IMMIGRANTS WRESTLING WITH SOUNDS, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blackboard is parcelled like a small farmer's field
Last Line: Don't buy an immigrant dog
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


SEVEN WORDS OF POETRY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this happened on the same day, as I remember -- the seven words
Last Line: Museum! Tell me mama-san -- how long have you been in this oday fresh!
Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; English As A Second Language; Poetry And Poets


TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by MARGOT TREITEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: All year I've been speaking the small
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching And Teachers


YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The underpaid young teacher
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The underpaid young teacher
Last Line: Could be curled seedlings, could take root, %could develop leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching And Teachers