But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher Melissa Alter ...

The stress freshman year brought was not entirely negative as it allowed me to rekindle my love for poetry. I hope my ...

Elmo Kelley, a second-grade teacher at Fontana’s Cypress Elementary School, has published two poetry collections and last ...

A shapeshifting medium, it doesn’t always look the same. Robert Frost’s short yet prolific “The Road Not Taken” is poetry ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

Although it’s only Garbers’ first year on Boarman’s bus, the two have clearly already made a close connection.

In its investigative series “The Cost of Empire,” The Courier Journal examines the rise of Highlands Latin and the effect it ...

“Poetry is not a scary thing,” she says. “If it’s something that (Swift) reads and leans into, I’m hopeful that other people will take it as an opportunity to do the same and not be afraid of feeling ...

Makenzie Anness' poems cover topics like having your first crush, friendships falling apart and even dealing with things like ...

She teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and ... books at once and start every morning ...

Or has our focus on poems like Owen's distorted our view of the ... Since I first read Dulce et Decorum Est at school, I’ve found Owen’s work inspiring. Because he wears his heart on his ...

Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Is it imagery? Format? Rhyme? Start by sampling a few poets.