As the school year draws to a close, is there a teacher who has inspired you? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander says his mother was his first teacher. He learned from her that "teachers are a ...

In honor of National Poetry Month (and Friday .... whew, it’s Friday!), we felt compelled to pass along a poem that a teacher sent to us. Jennifer Martin, a veteran English teacher at Wootton High ...

Kitty O'Meara's prose poem "And the people stayed home" has struck a chord with all those affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, even Deepak Chopra and Oprah are raving about it. A retired teacher, ...

Nearly a half-century after publication, an Allen Ginsberg poem about a homosexual encounter has divided a small Connecticut town and led to the resignation of an award-winning English teacher. In ...

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A South Windsor teacher now faces termination hearings after he read the 1968 Allen Ginsberg poem entitled “Please Master” to his high school class. David Olio put the ...