Tiny Little Cracks:Powerful Poems for Your Pocket Collection: Politics and the Pandemic

By Dr. Carol J. Graham

The Covid 19 Pandemic has upended every single country in the world.

These immense changes began near the end of 2019 and continue disrupting the cultures, the laws and the political environment throughout the world that we live in today.

Critical and pertinent and life-changing current events (political, social, ethnic, personal de

• Language: English
• Publisher: Staghorn Ridge Publications
• Release date: Aug 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9780986158858

Dr. Carol J. Graham

Dr. Carol Graham is a National Board Certified Reading and Language Arts Teacher Specialist. She is an elementary teacher and principal who lives in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. As principal and a teacher at Hometown Elementary School, her leadership and experience spirited Hometown Elementary School to be recognized at the state and national levels. As a teacher, her students achieved acclaim as finalists in a National NASA Competition and received several National STEM awards. As principal, Hometown Elementary was selected as a National Green Ribbon School, National Title I School, West Virginia School of Excellence and a West Virginia Distinguished School during her tenure. Beautiful Echo Ranch, near Kalispell, Montana, provided many childhood and young adult experiences for Dr. Graham. She fondly remembers riding her registered quarter horse, "Whimper Duke," many miles throughout the open range herding cattle. Later, she attended Montana State University to attain her degree in teaching. As a teacher in Idaho, her interactions with the children and teachers of the state, as well as her wealth of experiences from the state of West Virginia, provide the setting and backdrop for many of Dr. Graham's stories, illustrations and poems.

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Tiny Little Cracks

Powerful Poems for Your Pocket Collection:

Politics and the Pandemic

by Dr. Carol Graham

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Copyright © 2022 by Dr. Carol Graham

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First edition published September 2022

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022912628

ISBN-13: 978-0-9861588-4-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-9861588-5-8 (e-book)

Dr. Carol Graham is a National Board-Certified Reading and Language Arts Teacher Specialist. She is an elementary, middle school, and high school teacher, and principal. She has worked as a teacher and principal for several decades in West Virginia.

As principal and teacher at Hometown Elementary School in West Virginia, her leadership and experience spirited Hometown Elementary School to be recognized at the state and national levels. As a teacher, Dr. Carol Graham’s students achieved acclaim as finalists in a National NASA Competition and received several National STEM awards. During her tenure as principal, Hometown Elementary was selected as a National Green Ribbon School, a West Virginia State and National Title I Distinguished School, and a West Virginia School of Excellence. In addition, Hometown Elementary was selected as a winner in a national competition of the Washington, DC Kennedy Center for the Arts.

Beautiful Echo Ranch, near Kalispell, Montana, provided many childhood and young adult experiences for Dr. Carol Graham. She fondly remembers riding her registered quarter horse, Whimper Duke, many miles throughout the open range herding cattle. Later, she attended Montana State University to attain her Bachelors Degree in teaching, Masters Degree in Administration, and Doctorate at West Virginia University.

Currently, Dr. Carol Graham teaches in the state of Idaho. Idaho has provided numerous additional interactions with students, parents, principals, and administrators. Dr. Carol Graham continues to work as a teacher and administrator consultant throughout the United States, providing her education expertise and experience. These opportunities, in addition to her wealth of experiences in West Virginia and Montana, provide the settings and backgrounds for her poetry, Children’s books, and illustrations.

Contents

Tiny Little Cracks

The Need She Knew

This Country

Jinx July

Steadfast

The Tort

Trumpism

The Veracity of the Virus

Once Only

Things Revisited

If One Could Live Life Backwards

Capitol Coup

The Year 2020

EPIC Recount

Capitol Coup Investigation

Mitch McConnell

Tainted

Persistence

Contrition Cancelled

Displacement

The Address

The Loser

The Hitch

Hollow Hope

Beau Believes

Satisfied

Put On Change (Bernie’s Smittens)