Inspired by the success of its Poem-a-Day effort, the Academy of American Poets announced it is launching a new program meant to introduce poetry to the classroom. Beginning September 2, the group’s ...

In honor of National Poetry Month (and Friday .... whew, it’s Friday!), we felt compelled to pass along a poem that a teacher sent to us. Jennifer Martin, a veteran English teacher at Wootton High ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new ...

When Kate Rushin is teaching third-graders how to write persona poems using the story of the Amistad captives, she’s connecting them to a history that is personal to her. Rushin is an in-demand ...

A local arts fundraiser called “Knight to Remember” brought the fantasy world to Rochester. The event, organized by Teaching ...

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 ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Edwardsville English teacher Kirk Schlueter joins the likes of fellow poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell with his newest ...