*Amanda Gorman is the latest celebrity to join the MasterClass, teaching members how to write and perform poetry. Per press release, MasterClass members will have unprecedented access to Gorman’s ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Paul Cummins is making a powerful case for the relevance of poetry (and how to teach it) with his latest book. In Voice & Verse: Joys and How-To’s of Teaching, ...

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!

Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? After publishing 56—yes, count ‘em, 56—posts, videos, infographics, and podcasts over the past two months providing ...

‘There is not a particle of life that does not bear poetry within it’—Gustave Flaubert I read this quote to the small group of assisted living residents who had signed up for my weekly poetry writing ...

THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...

You could say that Taylor Mali is poetry in motion. A published poet and four-time National Poetry Slam Champion, he has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In addition, he is also a former teacher ...

I used Kenneth Koch’s wonderful book, ‘I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People’ as my template. In the late 1970’s, Koch spent about six months working with greatly incapacitated ...