In his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50 th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected piece of advice: “Don’t throw away your hard-copy ...

When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...

As the Poetry Foundation sunsets its adult education programming, the poet and educator remains committed to facilitating communal poetry spaces.

Rosa, along with a dozen other teens, was at a Youth Summit hosted by local spoken word educational program The Word.

ST. CLOUD — A group of writers gathered in a room at the Great River Regional Library Thursday evening, sipping cups of Somali tea and enjoying slices of pie as they perused poetry displayed in little ...

Adolescence is often a fruitful a time for writing poetry. Teaching poetry writing to adolescents suffering from schizophrenia is difficult, but it highlights some problems of the everyday classroom ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.

One day an ambulance carried off my half-paralyzed log of a body. Thinking I was dying, I slurred out two messages to my companion, Mariah: one for her, one for my kids. A mere five days later, I ...

THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...

Last week, I joined a group of 12 pre-teens in the conference room of the Montrose Branch of the Glendale Public Library to observe their poetry writing class. The four senior citizens who are ...

To the editor: I applaud the state prison system for adding more options for prisoners to get an education, particularly in the often-undervalued humanities. As Project Rebound’s Romarilyn Ralston ...

Adolescence is often a fruitful a time for writing poetry. Teaching poetry writing to adolescents suffering from schizophrenia is difficult, but it highlights some problems of the everyday classroom ...