OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A 16-year-old at Oak Ridge High School was given the Promising Young Writers Award after writing a poem about the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires. Brooke Kizzire very vividly ...

16 years after enjoying a high school literary education rich in poetry, I am a literature teacher who barely teaches it. So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly ...

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is a collection of poems intended not "for parents, for children, for classroom study or for required memorization," says editor Elise Paschen.

At Jordan High, Ms. Segura's class wanted to speak up for Watts, a 'beautiful community in need of recognition, voice and power.' Here is their poem. Video letter: Watts, through the poetry of its ...

I am from playing backyard baseball with tennis balls, Wiffle balls, even roundish gourds. from weekend sleep-overs from orange push-ups from fallen leaves kicked up in swirls on walks to school ...