The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? After publishing 56—yes, count ‘em, 56—posts, videos, infographics, and podcasts over the past two months providing ...

Teachers are turning Taylor Swift’s lyrics into powerful tools for teaching poetry and literary devices. By connecting students’ love for music with ELA standards, lessons become more engaging and ...

Lewisburg Area Schools will once again be infused with a new era of creative writing enlightenment, and Bucknell University students are at the forefront of it. Sixteen Bucknell students enrolled in a ...

One of my favorite digital features is the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, in which a new poem is delivered, daily, via Web or email. I don’t look at it all the time, but fairly often, and I am ...

Poet and professor Matthew Zapruder (@matthewzapruder) says that the way that poetry is taught often gets in the way of enjoying and understanding it. He writes about ways to look at poetry anew in ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay, “You/Me,” lithograph from The Blue and the Brown Poems (New York: Atlantic Richfield Company & Jargon Press, 1968) Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space at the Getty ...