On Oct. 22, students and faculty gathered in the Halton Reading Room of J. Murrey Atkins Library to share poetry and prose at the English Learning Community's (ELC) fourth annual ...

Poetry is the symphony of language, weaving intricate tapestries of emotion and thought with mere words. In its brevity lies a universe of meaning, inviting readers to explore depths beyond the ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

As editors who review poetry for The Atlantic, we read a lot of poems. Each week, there are new PDFs in our inboxes; our desks are covered with chaotic piles of books we’ve yet to crack open, and our ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. By William Grimes Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...