16 years after enjoying a high school literary education rich in poetry, I am a literature teacher who barely teaches it. So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly 200,000 ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

Explore the power of Poem Renovation in transforming poetry education. Poem Renovation is a free website designed for self-expression, allowing users to take words from a poem, mix them up, and ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

An award-winning AP English teacher who read a homoerotic poem by the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in class was forced to resign after complaints about the sexually explicit nature of the work and about ...

If you are going to shell out cash sending a kid to college, you might as well get in on their fun too. That's how my daughter's post-modern lit class slammed me into The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. It ...