The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction ...

When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

When poets Geffrey Davis and F. Douglas Brown first met at a poetry retreat in 2012, they instantly connected in discussing fatherhood and the poetry that sprang from that experience. Over time, that ...

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-demand ...

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new ...

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 ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...