Following a weekend of fear and violence in Charlottesville — where white supremacists and hate groups descended on the city and a car plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and ...

It's been called the small pond in the great literary ocean. And with April being National Poetry Month, as established by the Academy of American Poets, may we ponder anew, or renew, the pond of ...

Lest you think screens have completely taken over teens' minds, note that more than 4 million high school students have been reciting poetry for fun and competition for the past 20 years as part of a ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

What went wrong? Somehow, we blew it. We never quite got poetry inside the American school system, and thus, never quite inside the culture. Many brave people have tried, tried for decades, are surely ...

National Poetry Month was first launched in April 1996 by The Academy of American Poets, and it has gained momentum with each successive year. Events and activities take place all over the country ...