Scattered Notebook Pages

'Scattered Notebook Pages' is a collection of poetry written by Jason Murphy mostly during the 2009-2010 school year. As a teacher, collecting poems written from such a period makes sense, and it also explains why there are poems related to school and teaching included in the collection. Such poems include "Book Titles on the School Library Shelf," "The Professor's Exam," and "You Won't Need to Know This." It also includes poetry related to writing with titles like "Notes for a Poem to Write Later," "To a Typo in an Otherwise Flawless Book," and "A Haiku and Its Index." Regardless of the subject, there is a poem in this collection that will touch something inside any reader that ventures into it. From the introduction: "My hope is that some selection of poems from this volume, or even a single poem, or even a single phrase, catches hold of you and remains with you beyond these pages."