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 ...

Teachers are turning Taylor Swift’s lyrics into powerful tools for teaching poetry and literary devices. By connecting students’ love for music with ELA standards, lessons become more engaging and ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

One night in the fall of 2002, I was out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant with the poet Derek Walcott, who had been my professor in the graduate poetry program at Boston University. Another of my ...

An Oklahoma Native is sharing her life’s lessons through poetry during National Poetry Month. The newly published author said she’s thrilled to see her book Land of Milk and Honey B. on shelves across ...

October 11 is the International Day of the Girl. The NewsHour heard from one girl, a young Afghan poet, who left her country a few years ago with her family for security reasons. Aryan Ashory now ...