Joseph "Jay" Featherstone is a poet, writer, and educator. He was an editor of the New Republic, and has served as the principal of the Commonwealth School in Boston, and for many years as the faculty leader of an acclaimed teacher education program at Michigan State University. He is the author of a number of books, including Dear Josie, Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education (Teachers College Press, 2002). His work has appeared in magazines such as Ploughshares and the Harvard Review. He has published a poetry collection, Brace's Cove (New Issues), and has a new ms in preparation. Featherstone and his family have been living in East Gloucester – summers, part-time, or full-time – since the 1960’s.
Joseph "Jay" Featherstone is a poet, writer, and educator. He was an editor of the New Republic, and has served as the principal of the Commonwealth School in Boston, and for many years as the faculty leader of an acclaimed teacher education program at Michigan State University. He is the author of a number of books, including Dear Josie, Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education (Teachers College Press, 2002). His work has appeared in magazines such as Ploughshares and the Harvard Review. He has published a poetry collection, Brace's Cove (New Issues), and has a new ms in preparation. Featherstone and his family have been living in East Gloucester – summers, part-time, or full-time – since the 1960’s.