Bruce Spang
Presently the Poet Laureate of Portland, Bruce Spang teaches American Literature at Scarborough High School. Presently working on a libretto, “The White Rose”, about the gay man murdered by 3 high school boys in Bangor, he is also writing a novel, putting together another book of poems and doing a book on putting the art back in language arts—a book on how to merge teaching the craft of writing as a way to teach literature. He is author of To the Promised Land Grocery (Moon Pie Press, 2008), I Have Walked though Many Lives: Young Voices—Scarborough (Moon Pie, Press 2009) and The Knot, (Snow Drift Press, 2005), Tip End of Time (Snow Drift Press, 2004). His poems are also published in a number of anthologies. He was selected to represent Maine in the latest edition of Locus Point, an on-line journal--http://www.locuspoint.org. He has published four books on drug and alcohol education in the schools along with several articles in major magazines.
He has taught creative writing for seven years. Prior to that, for 10 years, as an administrator, he worked with Baron Wormser in teaching his staff to teach poetry in the classroom. Each year, his students in his classes, have won major prizes in local and state contests.