Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera works with 9th grade teachers in Chicago Public Schools to reexamine how poetry is taught in the classroom. Born the son of migrant farm workers in Fowler, Calif ...

Hammer a shaped rock against a red rock. Grind the red rock into powdered ochre. Wrap the ground ochre in a scrap of hide. Push a gnarled root into the sacred fire. Now carry your burning root upright ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Poetry has often been described as the neglected genre despite its potential to engage and motivate students of all abilities in reading and ...