For the most part, haiku in English have been either translations of old Japanese poems or originals that closely imitated Oriental terms and themes. Convinced that the form had other ...

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 ...

Called Teach This Poem, it will present a weekly poem, “accompanied by interdisciplinary resources and activities designed to help teachers quickly and easily bring poetry into the classroom.” ...

Kids know how to pour their hearts onto a page, educator Mary Jo Fresch writes, and what they produce is often full of surprises.

Poem Renovation is a free website designed for self-expression, allowing users to take words from a poem, mix them up, and rearrange them to create a new poem. We delve into how the artist behind ...

A dedicated teacher and talented poetess, her work highlights social issues and human emotions, proving that literary excellence is born from dedication, not he ...

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-dema… ...

A national program is working with teachers around the country to persuade students that reciting other people's poetry can be as transformative as performing their own.

How can we overcome these deep divides? Having served 28 years in the U.S. Army and as a teacher and researcher who studies the roles veterans and their family play in society, I believe poems ...

Poetry is a genre under siege. It is not only ignored in literary discourse pages and forums but also in secondary schools. Secondary school teachers neglect or teach poetry only occasionally ...