Preposthumous Poetry
Thoughtful Poems For Thoughtful People
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Irwin Jack Nissman has spent much of his life attending many public and private colleges, and technical training centers, learning how to continue to be useful to America, and trying to "give back" to the New York State taxpayers who have funded his many college scholarships.
First, for almost forty years, he served as an electrical and electronics engineer, working strenuously to defend our precious American freedoms. He worked for twelve companies, originating many commercial products and digital computer systems. During the Cold War, his "landmark" secure employee ID card validation system patent proved to be the "key" that was instrumental in inspiring many inventors, who followed, to create the banking debit cards and ATMs that have made banks accessible, even when closed, as well as the debit and food stamp EBT "swipe"cards used at supermarket checkout pinpads.
After the Cold War, he studied Computer Science at a local college (on a scholarship), and joined a networked computer training school, where he earned Network Administrator Certification, and stayed on to give over eight hundred students certification pretests and technical tutorials on the internet protocol suites. Next, he volunteered for three years, as a mentor, in a local high school, helping foreign-born students to improve their English Language Arts skills.
While retraining to become a certified New York State and New York City school teacher (also on a scholarship), he tutored local college and secondary school students, privately. His students number in the thousands! From age 66 to 75, he served as a math, science and technology teacher in a few New York City schools, and finally, as a multi-certified classroom teacher, and an "in-home" high school and middle school teacher for many New York State school districts, commuting daily between multiple assignments, in both Westchester and Rockland counties.
In 2004, time-shared with home-schooling students, he returned to his first creative art form, poetry! The sources of inspiration for his poetry have been many, from both in and out of this world! His use of poetry to engage the minds and hearts of his readers is impressive, in itself, but mainly, his manifest desire to teach, and increase human awareness, through his poetry is, at once, sincere and artful! 
