THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Paul Cummins is making a powerful case for the relevance of poetry (and how to teach it) with his latest book. In Voice & Verse: Joys and How-To’s of Teaching, ...

Adolescence is often a fruitful a time for writing poetry. Teaching poetry writing to adolescents suffering from schizophrenia is difficult, but it highlights some problems of the everyday classroom ...

President Joe Biden finally took his oath of office during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Having overcome historic obstacles, he was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – A Bay Area non-profit called Bay Area Creative has been teaching kids and teens poetry in local schools and online for years, and they made sure to continue to provide ...

To the editor: I applaud the state prison system for adding more options for prisoners to get an education, particularly in the often-undervalued humanities. As Project Rebound’s Romarilyn Ralston ...

ST. CLOUD — A group of writers gathered in a room at the Great River Regional Library Thursday evening, sipping cups of Somali tea and enjoying slices of pie as they perused poetry displayed in little ...