Whether you see yourself as a reader of poetry or not, in honor of National Poetry Month in April, I’d like to challenge you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife ...

Poems rhyme some of the time; oftentimes they don’t. But what distinguishes a poem from other herds of words is how a poem combines rhythm and precision to make meaning and move us: capturing a moment ...

Poetry gives students a powerful way to express emotions and ideas that may be difficult to put into ordinary words. Unlike formal writing, poetry allows freedom in language, structure, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a class exploring Swift’s music's connection to ...

Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

While it may be April Fools’ Day, today also marks the start of National Poetry Month. (No fooling.) So we’ve been asking educators on Twitter to share the classroom activities and resources they use ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

Last week, eighth-graders from Bradley Beach elementary school took the auditorium stage to perform original spoken word poetry for the tenth ...