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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...