December 23, 2025 Dear PROFESSOR JANE BOLSTER,             I am writing to you to personally thank you for your direction, enrichment; instruction; and nourishment during your 9:30am class this Autumn Semester 2025. I believe in the soulful words of the City College of New Yorks motto: “Respice, Adspice, Prospice” (Look behind, look here, look ahead). This triune message identifies with the spirit of education and our school.             I look in the past where I did not know how to annotate a poem or close read a short story. Thank you for teaching me to talk back to the poem after reading it. Asking questions like: Who is the speaker?…

Written by: Andre Jaison Mooreland CHARACTERS: Another King             Another King is used to the same old thing. He is visiting Bread Crumbs                                    Always in quick to listen, giving his ear to Bread Crumbs to listen.                                                 Another King is from Another Kingdom a city located on the southside of                                     Cashville, Tennekee. Another King wants to make peace with the mystery                                    that is of the town of Bethlehem.                                           Bread Crumbs             Bread Crumbs is used to spontaneous living. His speech to Another King                                    is very peaceful and uplifting, whereas Bethlehem wants peace too.                                    Bread Crumbs is from Bethlehem, a city located between Cashville,                                     Tennekee and Candyland, Tennekee. Bread…

The Roadmap to Heaven!             As I sit in my rocking chair, I realize that I am lonely. A twenty-five-year-old lonely boy living at his grandmother’s house working for the state of Tennekee. Just got off work, today I worked the morning shift. Grandmama left a pot of mixed greens simmering on the stove. She always makes them with smoked neck bones. I remember the recipe… Grandmama would say, “I’m going to put some greens on, let’s clean them together” So I would come and help her clean the greens. We would tear the leaves in half because they were extremely big. Whatever leaf was damaged we would take off.…

Written by: André Jaison Mooreland All those memories lost were sacred to meMy love is not fake, I’ll prove it—you’ll see!I want it the way it was, that’s where I want to be.Yet, I must move forward with joy and glee. New expressions to showNew places to goReflections from the pastDisappear so fast Stops to make…          Must keep on movingPrecautions to take…  Others watch what I’m doingI will not be the butt-end of the joke in this tale!There must be something good happening─I will travail! Places to go and people to see,I must be the best form of me.Goals to accomplish and things to doThe only thing that is missing…