{"id":1127,"date":"2010-03-18T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2010\/03\/18\/on-apples-not-falling-far-from-trees\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:34:12","slug":"on-apples-not-falling-far-from-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2010\/03\/18\/on-apples-not-falling-far-from-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"on apples not falling far from trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450113919494568866\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/S6Kxu9ziu6I\/AAAAAAAADDc\/bTwv3asLijc\/s200\/applemancover.jpg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.carleton.edu\/people\/appleman\/\">Deborah Appleman<\/a> was an inspiring public school teacher at Henry Sibley Senior High, whose poetry class blew our young minds to kingdom come. Today I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/87866287.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">read<\/a> that she&#8217;s a Carleton professor with a new book, based on her work at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater. So I went right to Amazon, of course, and ordered the anthology: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inside-Out-Letters-Young-Writings\/dp\/1449996523\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1262718680&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings Poetry and Prose from Prison<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody wonders why a sociologist and criminologist like me wants to write <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/fighting-off-bad-poem-with-good-one.html\">poetry posts<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/recipe-for-prison-pruno.html\">prison poetry posts<\/a>, no less) or edit <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/\">magazines<\/a>, it probably started with the teacher we called &#8220;Apple.&#8221; She pushed and nurtured and cajoled and cultivated creative writing and dangerous thinking. And she was <em>tough. <\/em>If I&#8217;m remembering right, I got a B+ on my final project &#8212; a full album of angsty original love songs, recorded on a four-track reel-to-reel. The songs sucked, of course, but c&#8217;mon! I&#8217;d never worked so hard in my life. I&#8217;d like to think she was just as tough on the guys at Stillwater &#8212; and that maybe she&#8217;ll have the same long-term impact on their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Appleman was an inspiring public school teacher at Henry Sibley Senior High, whose poetry class blew our young minds to kingdom come. Today I read that she&#8217;s a Carleton professor with a new book, based on her work at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater. So I went right to Amazon, of course, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}