Tenure is a ten-year coming-of-age journey in the form of poetry. From ages 15 to 25, Matt Greenfield wrote down poems: poems as assignments for his own teachers, poems meant as life lessons for his own students; poems as bets, poems as birthday presents; poems as silly experiments, poems as philosophical introspection; poems as poems. Collected in this volume is the complete poetry of an emerging writer in chronological order of composition. From the absurd epic of the urinal "Tripdych" to the bold statement of love to an entire city in "Ode to Cleveland," Tenure will obfuscate and amaze, annoy and engage, and chronicle that inward road-that "tenure track"-that young poets and young-at-heart readers all travel upon.