It is difficult to imagine a world without movies, plays, novels and music, but a world without poems doesn't have to be imagined. I find it disturbing that no one I know has cracked open a book of ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

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!

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 ...