What is The Left Place?

A labor of love that started as a podcast in February 2020, and lasted five whole months before I realized I enjoy writing more than talking.

What do I write about?

Politics mostly. I am a progressive intensely passionate about issues like Medicare-for-All, tuition-free college, student debt forgiveness, fully funded public education, the climate crisis, voting, immigration, labor, and progressive taxation.

Who am I?

I’m just a lowly public school teacher, father, and poet on a mission to drill down into the issues the corporate media either ignores or covers superficially. Every story I write is vetted and researched using the most reputable sources. Even if you don’t like what I have to say, I assure you everything is fact-checked, and I welcome alternative viewpoints.

I wrote for Liberal America from 2017 to 2022, and briefly for Politicus USA. Check out my Medium page as well for some personal non-political pieces.

My poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals like English Journal, Warp 10, Fictional Cafe, Little Somethings Press, Grand Little Things, Words and Whispers, Fleas on the Dog, Better Than Starbucks, Straight Forward Poetry, Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018), Crossways, Caesura, Circle Show, The Broke Bohemian, The Voices Project, Third Wednesday, Tiny Poetry: Macropoetics, Scintilla, Inklette, The Grief Diaries, Cactus Heart, Aji, Chronogram, Brickplight and Inkwell.

But enough about my side hustles!

I’ve been teaching high school English for more than 20 years and am a father of two (one teenager!), living in New York’s gorgeous Mid-Hudson Valley apple and wine country.

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