One day an ambulance carried off my half-paralyzed log of a body. Thinking I was dying, I slurred out two messages to my companion, Mariah: one for her, one for my kids. A mere five days later, I ...
THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...
Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction ...
Adolescence is often a fruitful a time for writing poetry. Teaching poetry writing to adolescents suffering from schizophrenia is difficult, but it highlights some problems of the everyday classroom ...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Paul Cummins is making a powerful case for the relevance of poetry (and how to teach it) with his latest book. In Voice & Verse: Joys and How-To’s of Teaching, ...
How can one hope to teach poetry when one’s students are “destimulated” and homogenized, and lack ethical sense, subtlety, and curiosity, let alone knowledge of history, or even an appetite for ...
When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...
President Joe Biden finally took his oath of office during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Having overcome historic obstacles, he was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the ...
(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.
To the editor: I applaud the state prison system for adding more options for prisoners to get an education, particularly in the often-undervalued humanities. As Project Rebound’s Romarilyn Ralston ...
Students participate in Drexel's “Civic Engagement and Participatory Methods” course. (Photo by Teddy Poneman) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member ...
Adolescence is often a fruitful a time for writing poetry. Teaching poetry writing to adolescents suffering from schizophrenia is difficult, but it highlights some problems of the everyday classroom ...
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