Larry Wilson

Hello, this is your neighborhood, friendly Larry Wilson at your service. I have taught at East Anchorage High School for the last seven years. I also coach the boy’s JV basketball team at East as well. I am a big fan of basketball, fantasy football, and the Chicago Cubs. I am from Chicago, IL originally, but I graduated from University of Washington—go dawgs! 

I fell in love with writing when I was a junior in high school; I joined a rap group called Fresh4Life Crew with two guys I played basketball with. I’ll never forget the words of my English teacher during my senior year of high school; Mrs. Kohler said, “Larry, you can’t just write raps all the time.” She is why I started to write and love poetry. At East High, I have run Poetry Out Loud for the last six years, and I have loved watching kids get so into poetry. My favorite poets would have to be Anne Sexton and Claude McKay. Music is another way that I get my poetry fix; hip-hop is my main channel, but I am all over the music spectrum as well.