We recently wrote about some educators’ efforts to keep poetry alive in school amid the myriad instructional demands of the Common Core State Standards. These teachers might get some help this month ...

Poetry isn’t just for the romantics, the literary types or the melancholic. Poetry can be for everyone. American poet Lucille ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

Barilla copied the lyrics of a song, circa 1841, into her journal as if it were a poem. According to Bridget Marshall, associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, “It ...

World poetry day aims to encourage the return of poetry recitals so they stay relevant in today's society. happy-world-poetry-day Its World Poetry Day, a United Nations-approved observance that ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join Kelvin Smith Library, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Arianna Papai, a painting student at the Cleveland ...

As National Poetry Month comes to an end, this does not mean that poetic activities in our community will cease. In 1996, April was designated by the American Academy of Poetry as National Poetry ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...