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 ...

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 ...

With National Poetry Month going strong, students can create and listen to poems, brush up on their poetry terms, and enjoy new work by the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, Vijay Seshadri.

Editor’s Note: Beyond the Classroom is a new series that highlights unique, local educators, who through their own experiences, passions and ingenuities, seek to teach and inspire others. Willow Grove ...

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 ...

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 ...

The junior high class started with noogies to the head, punches to the shoulder (“two for flinching!”) and spitballs fired surreptitiously from the back row by a kid named David. It ended an hour ...