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Lauryl Bennington, a senior majoring in secondary education at Oklahoma State University, talks about writing poetry in Dr. Sarah Donovan's class during the COIVD-19 pandemic and how it led her to further participate in Ethical ELA, which promotes the engagement of teachers in reading and writing poetry. She also discusses her education during this time moving online and the isolation from friends and other students that followed, as well as the increased time with her family and sister. Bennington also touches on some of the various prompts and forms of poetry used throughout her classes and Ethical ELA as well as her experiences with observing classrooms now that classes have returned to in person instruction.