Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn’t have cost him his job. But why is the work of a towering figure of 20th-century American poetry out of bounds? It was the kind of ...
Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...
A South Windsor, Connecticut teacher has been placed on leave after reading a poem in class that some parents and school officials described as “highly inappropriate”. The teacher, whose name has not ...