In 2017, poet Sarah Holbrook was excited to learn that two of her poems were chosen to appear on the 7th and 8th grade Texas state standardized test. On a lark, Holbrook tried answering the ...

To reinvigorate the poetry scene on ASU's downtown campus, Rosemarie Dombrowski, an English professor, has opted to take learning outside of the classroom. She teaches an intermediate poetry class ...

Here is why the arts, including poetry, matter in high school. A student I know, writing about herself in the third person, addresses a problematic teacher: “you wait for her to / trip and fall / she ...

With National Poetry Month going strong, students can create and listen to poems, brush up on their poetry terms, and enjoy new work by the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, Vijay Seshadri.

Once upon a time, almost all American schoolchildren memorized and recited poetry in the course of their education. It’s easy to look back wistfully at an age where everyone carried a bit of ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – When Jacob Keys, a 17-year-old senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, saw the “Inspire” mural on the outskirts of downtown Flint, it reminded him of his childhood. The mural ...

Skaneateles, NY - Children learn English by listening, Skaneateles third-grade teacher Janet Fagal said, so it’s only natural that they take a liking to poetry. “I think there’s a natural progression, ...

“Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up!” shouts the crowd at the AvantGarden in Montrose. Although it may seem like a loud rap or hip-hop concert, under the back patio’s twinkle of firelights and ...

The junior high class started with noogies to the head, punches to the shoulder (“two for flinching!”) and spitballs fired surreptitiously from the back row by a kid named David. It ended an hour ...

Editor’s note: We updated this lesson for National Poetry Day. It’s about U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s visit to a unique Seattle program a few years ago. A unique program in Seattle teaches ...