In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...

A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books and taught ...

Charles Gadbois shares a collection of spiritually inspired poems reflecting on faith, human experience, and the ...

At first, Walter Grigo was stumped. His class assignment was to prepare a 10-minute presentation on a poem by colonial author Phillis Wheatley. Grigo, who at the time was taking graduate courses at ...

K.K. Cherry never intended to write a book, but after a chance encounter with a young man at a bookstore in Aspen, she did just that. He read a few of her poems and urged her to publish them. Finding ...