about

PhD in English Literature from University of Birmingham

BA from WWU

Contact information

Jeremy Voigt Room 558 jvoigt@be.wednet.edu 360-757-4074 x3558

Phone or meeting hours for students or parents:

Before School: 7:30-7:50
Planning Periods: Blue 3 & Gold 7
After School: 2:30-3:00

I have taught at BEHS for thirteen years and have taught nearly every class in the English course offerings. My focus has been on AP Language, AP Literature, and Creative Writing. For the last ten years I have taught English composition, literature, and creative writing at Whatcom Community College in addition to working at BEHS.

Finally, I am a working writer (up early and writing before school) and have published poems in several magazines as well as a small collection of poems. Here is my writer's website.

about me

I have been teaching for sixteen years (at BEHS for twelve). I love books, trails, travel, running, my family. Here is a Proust Questionnaire about me (I think they are the best way to get to know someone).

Reading

Here are writers I love and think you should read:

Poets: Elizabeth Bishop, TS Eliot, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, WS Merwin, Phillip Larkin, WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Green, Spencer Reece, Henri Cole, Amy Gerstler, Jericho Brown, Deborah Digges, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Robert Wrigley, Keats, Shakespeare, Rick Barot, Derek Sheffield, Chris Dombrowski, Allen Braden, William Stafford, Stephen Dunn, Louise Gluck, Erin Belieu, Pablo Neruda, Terrance Hayes, Li Po, Issa, Ikkyu, Emily Dickinson…

Prose writers: Rebbecca Solnit, Maggie O'Farrell, Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen, Albert Camus, Anthony Doerr, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Leo Tolstoy.