To reinvigorate the poetry scene on ASU's downtown campus, Rosemarie Dombrowski, an English professor, has opted to take learning outside of the classroom. She teaches an intermediate poetry class ...

In 2017, poet Sarah Holbrook was excited to learn that two of her poems were chosen to appear on the 7th and 8th grade Texas state standardized test. On a lark, Holbrook tried answering the ...

Once upon a time, almost all American schoolchildren memorized and recited poetry in the course of their education. It’s easy to look back wistfully at an age where everyone carried a bit of ...

Here is why the arts, including poetry, matter in high school. A student I know, writing about herself in the third person, addresses a problematic teacher: “you wait for her to / trip and fall / she ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – When Jacob Keys, a 17-year-old senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, saw the “Inspire” mural on the outskirts of downtown Flint, it reminded him of his childhood. The mural ...

“Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up!” shouts the crowd at the AvantGarden in Montrose. Although it may seem like a loud rap or hip-hop concert, under the back patio’s twinkle of firelights and ...

Editor’s note: We updated this lesson for National Poetry Day. It’s about U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s visit to a unique Seattle program a few years ago. A unique program in Seattle teaches ...

It is difficult for me to imagine a day without poetry – lullabies at the cradle, the rhymes in the nursery, the rhythm of the blues and epitaphs on gravestones. The ordinary moments of life move in ...