Jerry Dyer

    Jerry Dyer is a very recently retired teacher. In that life, he taught a wide range of language centered courses, from mainstream English to ELD (ESL), five years of German, a bit of philosophy, and poetry. (The divisions were less rigid than it might seem!) He taught from middle school up to and including college courses, with the last 18 years at the high school level, at Silver Creek in San Jose’s East Side Union.
    Poetry has been at the core, always, the spark of creativity feeding the curricular choices and the activities and enterprises in all his work. Beyond the classroom, Jerry has been an active member of Poetry Center San Jose, especially the Willow Glen Poetry Project community.
    Dyer has read at Willow Glen, in Redwood City, and for the Peninsula Literary Series in Palo Alto. He has been published in the WGPP anthologies, in “Remembering: Poems Read at Willow Glen Books,” in Caesura, in kai han, a journal of the Albuquerque Zen Center, among others. His chapbook, What I Don’t Know, was published in 2012 by ProsodyEtc.  A second collection is underway. He intends to devote his post-working life to the P’s that have always mattered: poetry, politics, philosophy, and photography, a new P that will (he hopes) sharpen his eye.