If you are able to go to NCTE, please try to go. It is a wonderful opportunity to be inspired by amazing teachers in the field doing remarkable work. Here's a poem it inspired me to write.
Afterglow By Becky DePalma
Flying home across the meandering Mississippi out of the land of exploration back to the colonized East all the floating rafts shimmering and urging my brain downstream. The words glisten on the surface curves breaking up the shore eating up more and more and more. Making the resistant banks surrender to the water’s ebb and flow of creative inspiration.
From 10,000 feet above
the broken bent beautiful water dividing and nourishing the land below. I’m twisting to catch one last glimpse from my plane window.